Identifier: artartistsofourt06cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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and studied at the Academy in that city. He showed remarkable precocity, for this picture was painted, we are told, when he was nineteen, and it was thought so well of that it was boughtby the Art Union of Antwerp for their subscription lottery in 1878. It is certainly a vigorous, life-like study. This sturdy youngster, with her splendid legs, her fine arms, and her well-built body, is a tonic for the eyes, and she and her cat seem cast in similar moulds! The child is not much hurt, though she enjoys thinking she is, and the cat knows that her friend bearsher no ill-will for the slight scratch she has inflicted. The good terms the two are on is shown by her not running away and hiding under the sofa for fear of a whipping. We find but few traces of Farazyn in the books. In the Historic Exhibition at Brussels in 1880 he had a picture of a child playing with a dog, and called Happier than a King. The child appears to be of the same breed with the handsome one in our picture, and though exhibited
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E. PARASYN, PIHXT A.DAKSF. , SC UL NAUGHTY pussy; ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. -319 so much later, was probably painted at about the same time. In an exhibition of contemporary Belgian art, shown in New York, in 1882, there was a picture by Farazyn. Theodoke GrERARD, whose name seems to point to a French extraction, was born at Ghent in 1829, and studied his art at the Academy of his native town. When he had graduated from the Academy, he remained in his native city and occupied himself with decorative painting until he was twenty-nine, when he went to Brussels and opened a studio there as a painter of easel-pictures. He has been a prolific producer, and has received medals at various exhibitions, at Philadelphia in 1876, among others, where he had eight pictures. Almost all the pictures by this artist that we have seen are of home-scenes in the life of the common people, somewhat ideally treated, after a fashion more German than French, as in The Triumphal Procession. At one time, howe

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