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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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TOO MUCH ZEAL. FROM THE PICTURE BY EUGENE VERBOECKHOVEN mechanical method, that in its microscopic finish and nicety of detail was well suited to the ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 331 comprehension of the public at large. For a long time he stood with the world of picture-buyers as the leading animal-painter, and even after the appearance of Rosa Bonheur, Jacque,
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art and liberty. KROM THE PICTURE BY LOUIS GALLAIT. (See p. 304.) and Troyon, he continued to hold his place until pushed out of it like a last years leaf by the swelling buds of a new spring, the growth of a finer observation of nature, and a more poetic sympathy with her phenomena. Verboeckhovens ^earlier work is naturally his best, III 332 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. but even his best looks cold and dead before the lively and varied treatment of animal life inour later day. Landseer has been reproached for not drawing the line clearly enough be-tween animals and human beings, but Verboeckhovens sheep and cows are scarcely endowedwith so much human affinity as in our more liberal moments we sometimes think they prove.As it was, starting with a very matter-of-fact way of looking at his subject, he grew more andmore perfunctory, both in execution and design, and left little more behind him than thereputation of an honest workman who gave in full measure the article his customers call

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