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Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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imself admitted to the same privilege, he wastoo much agitated to take proper advantage of it, and secured only a sketch from which, bythe aid of his fathers portrait and of the bust by Houdon, which he always had before himAvhen he worked, he made his own well-known iDicture. The portrait is admittedly a made-up picture, but it has acquired a certain popularity from Avhich it is impossible to dislodgeit, the more as we have nothing that can take its place. Later in life Rembrandt Peale, whoinherited a great deal of his fathers ingenuity, took up lithography,- an art just then cominginto fashion in France and England, and by means of this process, which he was one of the first in this country to employ, he multiplied copies of his medallion head of Washington,Vol. III.—15 III 226 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. and reaped an ample harvest from tlie immediate popularity of the engraving. In 1807 hewent to Paris, sent by his father for the purpose of collecting portraits of distinguished
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brother and sister. FROM THE PAINTING BY ABBOTT H. THAYER. BY PERMSSION OF THE ARTIST. Frenchmen for his fathers museum, and, as he says himself, to feast his eyes on the treasuresNapoleon had assembled in the Louvre. Like many an American artist since his time, he ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 227 found it hard to escape the fascinations of Paris—that city of the lieart—and in 1809, soonafter his return to America, he went baclN; again to France, talving witli him his wife and hishve children. Yet, like the lover in the song, he sighed as he stood between Paris and hisnative land: How happy could I be with eitherWere tother clear charmer away! But love of country prevailed, and after an absence of fifteen months, he returned to Americaand again began painting in Philadelphia. He could not be content away from home, • not-withstanding an offer from Denon to give him employment from the government. Hebrought back with him a number of portraits of distinguished Frenchmen—Cuvier,

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