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Both at Florence and at Perugia he opened a bottega; and by the exercise of his trade as a master-painter, he realised enough money to buy substantial estates in those cities, as well as in his birthplace. In all the greatest artworks of the age he took his part.
Rough gear, broken ship, toiling men blind with sweat, blazing African sun, appalling isolation, vultures and jackals at work behind the dunes, and back of all ocean and Sahara, made a picture fit for any master-painter. We must throw only one glance at it, and pass on. This much accomplished, nightfall, with the west glowing like a stupendous jewel, brought rest.
High on the scaffolding he would see the painters at work, and as he watched the boy would build castles in the air, and dream dreams of a time when he too would be a master-painter, and be bidden by Venice to decorate her walls. To Tintoretto's mind Titian was the greatest man in all the world, and to be taught by him the greatest honour that heart could wish.
Mrs. Bateson sighed at the gloomy prospect opening out before young Mrs. Wilkins; then she asked: "How did the last daughter's wedding go off? She married a Methodist, surely?" "She did, Mrs. Bateson; and a better match no mother could wish for her daughter, not even a duchess born; he's a chapel-steward and a master-painter, and has six men under him.
The grateful recipient of her kindness, however, soon feeling strong enough, proceeded on his way alone. The scene had not passed without a witness, though, who proved to be none other than the eminent master-painter Van Zwanenburg, who joined himself to the little party.
Miss S. has haunted the antique shops of Manhattan and Brooklyn during the few leisure moments that came to her, in her search after miniatures. She now owns something like one hundred examples of famous miniatures. One of her greatest treasures is a portrait of John Dray, by that master-painter of miniatures, Richard Cosway.
Yet, by this, her beauty was rather enhanced than lessened as though Nature, the master-painter, had retouched a picture already wondrous, softening its colors with a tone more spiritual.
Without having a novel "message," he developed as a master-painter in orchestration. He belongs in the category of composers who are more prolific in the coining of images than the creation of ideas.
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