Excerpt from Historical Sketches of the Old Painters
The following sketches are offered without pretension to a knowledge of the fine arts. They are an attempt to make more graphic and real the history of men whose names are familiar to most of us, and with whose works we are becoming more and more acquainted.
It were well if the thirst for amusement could be partly satisfied with such entertainment as flows from a history of the development and rewards of genius, or at least suffer the reader to draw a lesson from the lives of those who have used or perverted this noble gift of the Creator. The path that the author has chosen cannot be a useless one, if it lead to fountains which refresh and invigorate.
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