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Picture to yourself, Monsieur and Madame," she went on, for she passed Stubbs over, "that this wretched person a dauber, an incompetent, not fit to be a sign-painter receives this morning an admirable offer from an uncle an uncle of my own, my mother's brother, and tenderly beloved of a clerkship with nearly a hundred and fifty pounds a year, and that he picture to yourself! he refuses it!
And don't tell me those fruits are worthless; the poorest dauber, un barbouilleur, the man who plays dance music for five farthings an evening, is of more use than you, because they are the representatives of civilisation, and not of brute Mongolian force! You fancy yourselves advanced people, and all the while you are only fit for the Kalmuck's hovel! Force!
The old man grumbled a good deal at first, but was finally so far mollified as to say less testily, while he put on his hat, "I warrant me, young man, you are come on some wild-goose chase to this out-o'-the-way region of the land in search of the picturesque eh? a dauber on canvas?"
In this passion his shy, sensitive nature was stronger than all the brute strength enjoyed by his shipmates; they could destroy his paintings, they could hurt his body, they could torture his heart. But they could not prevent him from following his ideal. Dauber died, and his pictures are lost. But in the poem describing his aims and his sufferings, Mr.
But in addition to the tremblings they occasioned, beyond the terrible skill of this man, the extraordinary life which animates his characters, one discovered, among his astonishing, swarming throngs among his mobs of people delineated with a dexterity which recalled Callot, but which had a strength never possessed by that amusing dauber curious reconstructions of bygone ages.
He is a high finisher in poetry, whose every work must bear inspection, whose slightest touch is precious not a coarse dauber who is contented to impose on public wonder and credulity by some huge, ill-executed design, or who endeavours to wear out patience and opposition together by a load of lumbering, feeble, awkward, improgressive lines on the contrary, Mr.
A dauber from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts would have branded with the epithet "sham" the armchairs and sofas ornamented with sphinx heads in bronze, as well as the massive green marble clock upon which stood, all in gold, a favorite court personage, clothed in a cap, sword, and fig-leaf, who seemed to be making love to a young person in a floating tunic, with her hair dressed exactly like that of the Empress Josephine.
They can pursue their picturesque and romantic studies from here just as well; I suppose, Marillac, that you are still a determined dauber of canvas?" "To tell the truth," replied the poet, "art absorbs me a great deal." "As to myself, I never succeeded in drawing a nose that did not resemble an ear and vice versa.
At this moment, the eyes of the Princess rested for an instant on the barbarian Hereward, to whom she deigned this greeting "Valiant barbarian, of whom my fancy recalls some memory, as if in a dream, thou art now to hear a work, which, if the author be put into comparison with the subject, might be likened to a portrait of Alexander, in executing which, some inferior dauber has usurped the pencil of Apelles; but which essay, however it may appear unworthy of the subject in the eyes of many, must yet command some envy in those who candidly consider its contents, and the difficulty of portraying the great personage concerning whom it is written.
I smiled at her authoritative tone, and said quietly: 'I am an artist, madam, and I had counted much on the success of my first historical painting. It has failed, and I am both penniless and infamous. I am the "presumptuous dauber" of the critics despised by my creditors emphatically a failure throughout.
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