Excerpt from Illustrated Notes Upon the Pictures in the Dramatic Fine Art Gallery, 1880
This collection of pictures and drawings, if it does not satisfy the highest requirements of Art, affords a very interesting and instructive study. That a good many of those who "fret and strut their hour upon the stage," devote their leisure to other branches of art is a known fact. Some of them, indeed, have openly enrolled themselves among the ranks of painters and sculptors. These are, however, among the few, the others have been content until now with the display of their talents in the more limited circle of their personal friends. The collection, got together by Messrs. G. W. Anson and E. G. Osborne, is the result of a happy thought, and, considering the difficulty of initiating such a movement, the result is a fairly successful one. Of late years, a greater desire than ever has sprung up to see and know the actor apart from his vocation. Taking advantage of this, Mr. Anson has rightly conjectured that specimens of the work that occupies actors' time away from their profession would prove of some interest to the world in general. That a good deal of the work exhibited is faulty and oftentimes of a very indifferent character is not to be denied, but it is of a highly interesting character.
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