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Title: Life and letters of John Constable, R. A
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859
Subjects: Contable, John, 1776-1837 Artists
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ll of tone and chiaroscuro. There is some hope of the Academysgetting a Claude from Mr. Angersteins,* the large and magnifi-cent marine picture, one of the most perfect in the world; shouldthat be the case, though I can ill afford it, I will make a copy ofthe same size. A study would only be of value to myself, theother will be property to my children, and a great delight tome. The very doing it will almost bring me into communion withClaude himself. Lawrence told me that, should I really wish it, itwould stimulate him to farther exertions to get it from Mr. Anger-stein. In the room where I am writing, there are hanging up twobeautiful small drawings by Cozens ; one, a wood, close, and verysolemn ; the other, a view from Vesuvius, looking over Portici,very lovely. I borrowed them from my neighbour, Mr. Woodburn.Cozens was all poetry, and your drawing is a lovely specimen. * Pictures are lent to the Academy by most of the possessors of collections for theuse 01 tlie paiiiiiiig scliuul.
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z< < I I iS2i.) CLAUDE.—GLOVER. lor Salisbury, August 6th, 1821. My dear Constable,—Very few can copy Claude; I exhortyou to it by all means. It will secure two or three hundredpounds to your family, and will furnish us with an inexhaustiblestore of pleasure. I get impatient to know whether your wife willallow you to run down this autumn. Any time from September1st to January will be convenient to me, and you need not beat any expense at all. One night in the mail and you are here. The assizes are holding, and C is here. Your letters lay on the table. He said that there were S07ne parts of your lastpicture good. I told him if he had said all the parts weregood, it would be no compliment unless he said the whole wasgood. Is it not strange how utterly ignorant the world is ofthe very first principles of painting ? Here is a man of thegreatest abilities, who knows almost everything, and yet he is aslittle a judge of a picture as if he had been without eyes. TheresMatthews again

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