Notes: Critical & Biographical by R.B. Gruelle. Collection of W.T. Walters. J.M. Bowles, Editor and Publisher - Couverture rigide
Présentation de l'éditeur
The city of Baltimore possesses an institution of which any city might well be proud, a private collection which has been gradually unfolding during the last half century until it has reached proportions of unrivaled magnitude and far-reaching influence. Martha J. Lamb URING a visit toW ashington in the spring of 1892 I had the extreme pleasure of spending a day with Mr. Walters pictures at Baltimore. The first thing that impressed me on entering the gallery was the personality of the collection. A nother thing I noticed was its wide range, both in regard to subject and style. It was confined to no school or nationality, and while there were scores of the greatest paintings ever brought to our country, there was not a bad picture in the room. You vfelt that you were surrounded by the works of the strongest painters, and there was nothing in the decoration or arrangement of the gallery that in any way interrupted or marred their effect. In taking a hurried glance around the room I was attracted to a portrait, a threequarter length, of a gentleman. The subject was a business man, short and compact, with strong features and healthy color. This picture was painted with such vigor, force and realism that I was startled for the moment and could not get away from it. I found myself continually returning to it and trying to analyze the man, not the picture, for it seemed to me to be a real living Ego. The man appeared to be related to the pictures about him.
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