"Reviews," Art Journal, 1884

"Reviews," Art Journal, 1884

1884

Anon.

The Art Journal 46 (1884): 256.

A frequently quoted review published after the third fascicle was issued criticizing the artificiality of the photographs and the likenesses of some of the portraits.

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Omeka record contributed by Linda Merrill

November 17, 2016

“ARTISTS AT HOME.” Parts I. to III. (Sampson Low and Co.) –This publication does hardly more than the one just mentioned,[1] to admit the public into the real sanctuaries of the life artistic. True, a large and in some cases skilled photograph, taken by Mr. Mayall, and reproduced by photo-engraving, accompanies the notice of each artist which Mr. F. G. Stephens has written. But these plates do not show us the artists really at home; or, at least, they show them only as they are at home to the photographer. All the handsome furniture has been piled into that part of the room which is represented in the plate, while the owner of the studio has posed himself gracefully at the right point. The portraits of Mr. Millais and Mr. Marcus Stone are excellent likenesses, but those of Mr. Alma-Tadema and Mr. Pettie somehow miss the distinguishing characteristics of the two men.

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