British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood (1881) (14597625510)

Identifier: britishpaintersw00newy (find matches)
Title: British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Painters -- Great Britain Painting -- Great Britain
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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hree Jolly Post-boys, were at Philadelphia in1876; while The Apothecary, St. Francis and the Birds, and ThePrincess and the Pelican (water colour), appeared at Paris in 1878. Mr.Marks attained to the full honours of the Academy in 1879. One of our engraved examples, The Missal Painter, has, we believe,never been exhibited. Seated at his desk, with colours and pencils withinconvenient reach, the artist-monk—and how much of Art and literature we ofthe present day owe to those recluses whose cells and cloisters were thestudios of all learning !—has submitted his labours to the inspection of two ofthe brotherhood, while he indulges in a yawn that shows he must have passedsome weary hours over the work. There Is a touch of genuine humour Inthis truly characteristic scene which requires no stretch of imagination todiscover. But In addition to the pictures exhibited at the Royal Academy, Mr.Marks has been a valuable contributor to the Dudley Gallery, the com- 1 11 w. \ p :^V^ ;;, ■-.M.
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•^^ Pi JH ? << Co sl 1^ TO Nl^^ YOKKpUT.!.IC MB P. ART FEAMES. 131 mittee of which he joined in 1866. Among his various drawings hung inthe gallery may be pointed out Orpheus charming the Brutes, Jack oLantern, May-day in the Olden Time, The Princess and the Pelican,&c. : all of them works of a very high character. In the exhibitions ofoil pictures which have been held in the same rooms since 1868 he hasappeared in Tired out, The Tinker, &c. In the early period of his career Mr. Marks employed much of his timein designing figures and subjects for firms engaged in the production ofstained glass. Possibly to this circumstance may be traced the prevalenceof mediaevalism in his pictures on canvas, &c. And since those early days,and since his fame as an artist has been fully established, he has not for-sworn merely decorative Art. In the Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences hehas designed that portion of the frieze in which appear the allegoricaldesigns representing Agricul