This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...before that time, and after it as well until a breach came, Howell acted as agent for the sale of Rossetti's pictures. He was undoubtedly a salesman of most exceptional gifts, and his resourcefulness in invention was past praise; but it may be doubted if in the long run his connection with Rossetti did the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...before that time, and after it as well until a breach came, Howell acted as agent for the sale of Rossetti's pictures. He was undoubtedly a salesman of most exceptional gifts, and his resourcefulness in invention was past praise; but it may be doubted if in the long run his connection with Rossetti did the latter much good, and one may notice among those who had dealings with him a reluctance to discuss his brilliant business qualities. Amongst other features of his activity at one period was the circulation of a number of spurious Rossetti drawings, which he either did himself or got done. It has been stated that his skill as a copyist commanded admiration even from Ruskin. Apart from this he was an excellent connoisseur, of keen and sound judgment. Howell figures in Mr. Watts-Dunton's novel, "Aylwin," under the thin disguise of the Anglo-Portuguese Da Costa--Rossetti himself being a leading and easily recognized character in the book. There is a crayon portrait of him by Rossetti, dated 1865, which gives a good notion of his foreign, sallow, and by no means unintellectual features. We may here resume the thread of Rossetti's work, 1 In a volume of "Reminiscences," posthumously edited and published in 1904, Mr. Treffry Dunn antedates his acquaintance with Rossetti by about three years, as the context itself proves. dropped at the point where his wife's death broke it and rendered him for a short time incapable of settled application. One of the last things he executed prior to that bereavement, and certainly the last thing for which his wife sat to him, was a water-colour of St. George and i' Princess Sabra, different from his other versions of George, in which the kneeling Princess is holding up helmet as a basin for her...
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