prize-holders

Updated: June 6, 2025

Mature professors of art had to endure the mortification of finding their best productions passed over by the unskilful multitude, and the highest praises awarded to mere beginners. The newspapers of the day newspapers have never been very learned in art matters fell into the same delusion, and in their notices of the exhibition, paid attention only to these most over-rated prize-holders.

Dutton Cook - Art in England: Notes and Studies