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
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ll a story m.ore clearly or more cheerfully, or to place iis more un-erringly in realities of time and locality. We are in a Belgian parlor—not a Fi-ench, nor anEnglish, nor a German, nor a Dutch, but in a Belgian parlor, with Belgian children, in thenineteenth century, and there can be no mistake about this, nor about the fact that these arenot professional models, nor lay-figures dressed up, but living, laughing children, enjoying theiryoung lives, and, most of all, enjoying the possession of this miraculous baby-brother. Verhasought by this time to have got a good place in the dictionaries, but we find small mention ofhim there. We know him best by his works, of which several were shown at Philadelphiain 1876, and rewarded with a medal. From time to time, examples of his art apjpear on thisside the water, but we fancy his own countrymen, to whom his types and incidents are famil-iar, as reflecting their daily life, absorb his production and leave but little for the outside world.
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3Et,MAR HESS . PUBLISHER-NEW YORK- ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 315 II. r~> USTAVE DE JONGHE, the painter of Tlie Orphans, was born in 1828 at Courtrai, a^-^ considerable manufacturing town between Ghent and Lille. His father, Jean BajDtisteDe Jonghe, who died in 1844, was a landscape-painter, a jDupil of Ommeganck, much esteemedin Brussels, where he was at the head of a painting-school. He is represented in the Museumof Modern Painting at Brussels by a View of Tournai, which was thought worthy of a placeamong the two hundred and twenty-three Belgian pictures sent to the great exhibition of•London in 1862, and there is also an example of his art in the museum at Courtrai. His sonGustave early showed a strong taste for music as well as a love of painting, and for a whilehe wavered between the two, not able to make uj) his mind as to which he should choose fora profession. At last, however, he decided to become a painter, and after the death of hisfather went to Brussels to pursue

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