Louise Rogers Jewett
Published: 2015-06-17
Total Pages: 184
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Excerpt from Masterpieces of Painting Their Qualities and Meanings, an Introductory Study Since the larger things Miss Jewett purposed will not now come to fruition, a word may be said of a life and work for which this book can be but partial evidence. Desire and marked ability led her early to determine on the professional study and practice of art. In 1886 she began the arduous training of an art student in Paris, where she studied under the two great masters, Benjamin Constant and Jules Lefebvre. In 1888 her first Salon picture was accepted; it was a portrait, and as such indicative of the interest that dominated the larger part of her later creative work. For several years she was more or less continuously abroad, gleaning richly from the art of the various European countries in which she found herself. The serious historical study of her subject, long since begun, became of increasing importance to the young artist. In 1892 she made her first pilgrimage to Italy, and henceforth her love for its art, its literature, its people, for the lovely land itself, was an abiding and ever deepening influence in her life. She returned to Italy again and again, and she brought from it always an ardent gospel of beauty and delight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.