The Reminiscences of a Very Old Man 1808 1897
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3. Vermillion.
4. L. Red Ochre.
5. Lake with a very little Indian Red.
6. Dark Ochre.
7. Bone Brown.
8. Ivory Black.
9. Raw Terra di Sienna.
10. Antwerp Blue.
It is my belief that when Stothard used the word water he meant saliva, the efFed of which on the artist's palette was taught to John Neagle by Gilbert Stuart. While Neagle was painting Stuart's portrait in Boston in 1824, the weather was very hot and drying, and his colours became ropy and unmanageable. Stuart as he posed saw the trouble... the artist was having with his paint, and asked him if he did not know how to remedy it. Neagle acknowledged he did not. "Well, hand me your palette and knife and I will show you." He then spat in the colour and with rapid motion of [ 178] Digitized by VjOOQIC AMERICA the knife mixed it in thoroughly, treating each pig- ment in succession in the same way, Neagle told me the efFed was magical, the paint afterwards so readily obeyed every touch, Joshua Shaw was very apt to get into quarrels, and it was this contentious spirit which made him take so prominent a part in organizing the Artists' Fund So- ciety in 1835, ^^ order to antagonize the Pennsylvania Academy, Less than two years after, he quarrelled bit- terly with the president of the Artists' Fund Society, John Neagle, and then gathered about him enough of the artistic element to antagonize that body in turn by establishing the Artists* and Amateurs* Association.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
3. Vermillion.
4. L. Red Ochre.
5. Lake with a very little Indian Red.
6. Dark Ochre.
7. Bone Brown.
8. Ivory Black.
9. Raw Terra di Sienna.
10. Antwerp Blue.
It is my belief that when Stothard used the word water he meant saliva, the efFed of which on the artist's palette was taught to John Neagle by Gilbert Stuart. While Neagle was painting Stuart's portrait in Boston in 1824, the weather was very hot and drying, and his colours became ropy and unmanageable. Stuart as he posed saw the trouble... the artist was having with his paint, and asked him if he did not know how to remedy it. Neagle acknowledged he did not. "Well, hand me your palette and knife and I will show you." He then spat in the colour and with rapid motion of [ 178] Digitized by VjOOQIC AMERICA the knife mixed it in thoroughly, treating each pig- ment in succession in the same way, Neagle told me the efFed was magical, the paint afterwards so readily obeyed every touch, Joshua Shaw was very apt to get into quarrels, and it was this contentious spirit which made him take so prominent a part in organizing the Artists' Fund So- ciety in 1835, ^^ order to antagonize the Pennsylvania Academy, Less than two years after, he quarrelled bit- terly with the president of the Artists' Fund Society, John Neagle, and then gathered about him enough of the artistic element to antagonize that body in turn by establishing the Artists* and Amateurs* Association.
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