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Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ut notdescribed—an observation, indeed, which might with truth be made concern-ing any work of art. Mr. Guy has never been a rapid painter, and he has not a particle of dashin execution. He works slowly, carefully, and perseveringly ; and he is veryconscientious about keeping his canvases in his studio until they have re-ceived the finishing touches. Before beginning a picture he knows preciselywhat effect he intends to produce, and he hammers away at the nail until itcan be driven in no farther. Then he stops—that is to say, he does not loadhis delineations with more than they can bear. He knows when he is done,and he lets well enough alone. But to send away an incomplete work, one towhich he feels justice has not been done, would be almost impossible withhim. Should he by chance or necessity do so, he woidd be miserable until hegot it back again, which is the same as saying that for the commercial aspectsof art he has a profound disrespect. He does not paint for dollars, but for
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THE OLD STORY.From a Painting by E. Wood Perry. p. 71. SEYMOUR JOSEPH GUY. 69 love, and in order to satisfy himself it is necessary for him to pain) steadily,evenly, and long. His Fair Venice, a young lady of fine personal attrac-tions leaning over the railing of a balcony and gazing upon the blue Adri-atic, is a painstaking performance if ever there was such a thing. It is beau-tiful also. Mr. John H. Sherwood, of New York, owns Mr. Guys Supplication andhis Knot in the Skein ; Mr. P. Van Valkenberg, of New York, TheGamut and Children catching the Bird ; Mr. Jay Gould, The FathersReturn, a girl with her hand before a candle, standing at a cottage-door, andlistening to the footsteps that are approaching; and Mr. Polhemns, of Brook-lyn, The Broken String and also The Orange-Girl. The artists industrycompensates for the absence of celerity, and his pictures may be found in mostof the collections in the principal cities of the continent. The painting ofportraits, a department to which Mr.

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