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Talks about Art.

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LONDON:

R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR,

BREAD STREET HILL, E.C.

EXTRACT FROM A LETTER

(Dec. 1876).

DURING a recent trip to the United States, I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of W. M. HUNT, the great American painter, to whom I was introduced in his own atelier in Boston by my friend J. T. Fields. At the time of my visit he was engaged in correcting the drawings of a class of female students, and he invited me to come and look on while he continued his occupation. I was struck by the clear incisive observations which the several efforts of the students elicited as he passed them in review, and I was soon sensible that I was in the presence of a great Teacher, whose teaching, while impressed by the French training he had received in Paris, was clothed in language distinctly original, racy and American.

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