Taking Pains.
What, it will bo askod, haa been tha secret of Leighton's success? The reply may )>a given in tho words in whicli Carlylo defined genius: ' Tho capacity for taking infinite pains.' As ib was ad the beginning of his careor, so is it now ; whatovor Sir Frederick Leighton undertakes to do ho (loos thoroughly. Of all our present masters, Sir Frederick Loighton doliohta most in softly blended colours, and his ideal of beauty is moro nearly that of Corrogio than any seen sinco Corregio's time. But you see by what, procisi'on of terminal outlino ho at firsb restrained and exalted hia gift of beautiful vachezza. And it is nob merely in drawing alone, not) merely in painting alone, nob merely in sculpburo alone, that the Prcsidont exhibits this wonderful thoroughness —tbore they might perhaps havo been expected, though in the work of many artista they are Boughb in vain—every manifestation of his many-sided activity shows tho same remarkable mastery of dotail, tho same untirin? industry, tho same perfection in result. Whatsoever his hands find to do, that ho does, and with all his might.— •Pi,eviow of Reviews.'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 208, 2 September 1893, Page 3 (Supplement)
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189Taking Pains. Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 208, 2 September 1893, Page 3 (Supplement)
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