Excerpt from British Painters: Their Story and Their Art
"British Painters: Their Story and their Art" is a presentation, in popular form, of the Story of British Painting - a well-worn but never wearying story, which for ever offers fresh charms to young and old, and stirs in British hearts feelings of patriotism and delight.
In a work of the size of this volume it is impossible to do more than lightly sketch the more salient features of the glorious panorama of seven hundred years. My purpose, in this compilation, is threefold. First - to bring into stronger light the painting glories of the earlier artists of Britain: many people are unfamiliar with the lives and work of the precursors of Hogarth. Secondly - to treat especially of the persons and art of painters whose works are exhibited in our public galleries: pictures in private holding are often inaccessible to the generality of people, and besides, they are constantly changing locality - this is true of the Royal Collections.
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