This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... Natick. Those of Cyrus and Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., were at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876. Among the most important of his figure-pieces are his " King Lear" and "Judas in the Potter's Field," which were exhibited in Boston in 1877, and he is at present (1878) engaged upon a picture ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... Natick. Those of Cyrus and Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., were at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876. Among the most important of his figure-pieces are his " King Lear" and "Judas in the Potter's Field," which were exhibited in Boston in 1877, and he is at present (1878) engaged upon a picture representing "Christ before Pilate." His " Back-Bay Lands " and other landscapes have attracted some attention in Boston. In 1869 the brothers furnished the design for the Soldiers' Memorial Monument, unveiled on the Common in Cambridge, Mass., in July, 1870, which was erected by them, and for which they received $ 25,000. Darius Cobb frequently delivers lectures in Boston and elsewhere on art subjects. "Darius Cobb has lately finished a view across the Common, from the roof of the Studio Building, that is so much a novelty in the way of treatment, as well as subject suggested, that it deserves longer mention than is at present possible. The strength of the picture is in the sky; a mass of clouds reaching across the canopy, white with the noonday light massed upon it, throwing much of the middle distance, such as the tops of the trees, into comparative shadow, and lending to several church-spires and prominent buildings something of its own clearness and vigor." -- Aldiru. 1876. "Darius Cobb has given us a picture which will go down as the standard one of Choate, -- a picture which Is notonlyan outward semblance of the man, butone which sccms permeated with his very spirit It is full of that shaggy strength which impressed itaelf on every beholder, and which those who remember his forensic eloquence will appreciate and acknowledge." -- Boston Transcript, June 24, 1876. Cobbett, Edward J. (Brit.) Born in London, 1815. He devoted himself to art...
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