Excerpt from Great English Painters: Selected Biographies From Allan Cunningham's "Lives of Eminent British Painters"
Few biographical works have deserved so well of the public as Allan Cunningham's celebrated Lives of the most Eminent British Painters. The secret of the success of the "Lives" lies in the fact that they are biographical records, narrated with sprightly vigour and discriminating intelligence; not mere critical dissertations, uninteresting to the uninitiated, subject to the indifference born of maturer judgment. Comparisons seldom really fit, whether made of a man or of a place - whether Reynolds be called the English Michael Angelo, or Edinburgh the modern Athens: but there is at anyrate some justice in the application to Cunningham of the designation, "The Scottish Vasari." In common with much of the famous record of the Italian chronicler, the main interest of the "Lives of British Painters" is concentrated upon personal details: the man is the dominant theme, the work merely incidental. This is as it should be, in a book intended for the general reader.
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