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Excerpt from A History of the Old Water-Colour, Vol. 2 of 2 While these events were stirring in the outer world of politics, and exercising their influence, designedly or not, upon the inner world of Art, the latter sphere was passing through Successive phases of its own. Its native current flowed, indeed, with undiminished stream, but its course was changing. It is only so far as the general occur renees above referred to affected the development of water-colour painting, that they concern us here. But their influence thereon will be recognized from time to time in various ways, in the course of the narratives hereinafter given of the careers of individual members of the water-colour Society. This body of artists were still, to a great extent, a school unto themselves, with principles based on those of their founders, adhering to their own traditions, and relying on the qualities and capabilities peculiar to the medium in which they painted. More modern theories of art, accompanying, and in some respects connected with, if not originating in, the advance of applied science, had as yet exerted but small apparent influence either on their artistic motives or on their forms of pictorial speech. The newer and more observant criticism, whereof the first and greatest leader was the Oxford Graduate, ' whose book on Modem Painters first set the world of Art a-thinking in 1843, and Opened British eyes to the freshness and truth of our living school, dealt mostly then in its praise. A reforming age came later, an age in some respects of revolution, aided and abetted by the same eloquent and per suasive pen. But the so - called 'pre-raphaelite' movement, which began to Show itself some half-dozen years before Fielding's death, had but little influence on the water-colour painters, as a school, until after the date of that event. In the lives and works of the Members and Associates of the water-colour Society will further be found an illustration, not only of the progress Of the department of art exhibited in its gallery, but also of the concurrent advance of another, with which they were still, as they had been from the earliest times, intimately connected, that of designing for the press, wherein they worked hand in hand, with the engraver, and were employed Lby the publisher, as well as the patron. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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