Identifier: scribnersmagazin16newy (find matches)
Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Death Crowning Innocence.(Photographed by Cameron & Smith.)
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n G. F. Watts, R.A., from Life.(Photographed by Cameron & Smith.) claim of the art of painting not only toplease and amuse, but to elevate themind by the expression of the noblestideas. It has been the strange fortuneof Mr. Watts, who has never disguisedthe didactic aim of his art, to have beenmore or less exempted from the gen-eral condemnation which some mod-ern critics have for many years dis-tributed impartially on all painterswhose art is not entirely for artssake. He is still regarded by most ofthese as a true artist ; an artist as itwere in spite of himself. And this heis even according to his own account,for he has told me that he would haveexpressed himself in words had thatgift been vouchsafed to him. If onemay judge from his few publishedutterances, like his early criticisjn of Benjamin Robert Haydon, his descrip-tion of his own works, and his delight-ful conversation, he underrates his 0s\tipowers of effective sj^eech ; but still it isnot to be regretted that his domin

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