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See also:FREDERICK See also:SANDYS (1832-1904)
, See also:English painter and draughtsman, was See also:born at See also:Norwich on the 1st of May 1832, and received his earliest lessons in See also:art from his See also:father, who was himself a painter
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His See also:early studies show that he had a natural See also:gift for careful and beautiful See also:drawing, and that he sought after See also:absolute sincerity of presentment
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See also:Sandys worked along the same lines as See also:Millais, Madox See also:
No books illustrated by him can be traced
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So his exquisite draughtsmanship has to be sought for in the old See also:bound-up periodical volumes which are now hunted by collectors, or in publications such as Dalziel's See also:Bible See also:Gallery and the Cornhill Gallery and books of drawings, with verses attached to them, made to See also:lie upon the drawing-See also:room tables of those who had for the most See also:part no See also:idea of their merits
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Every drawing Sandys made was a See also:work of art, and many of them were so faithfully engraved that they are worthy of the See also:collector's See also:portfolio
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Early in the 'sixties he began to exhibit the paintings which set the See also:seal upon his fame
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The best known of these are " Vivien " (1863), " See also:Morgan le See also:Fay " (1864), " See also:Cassandra " and " See also:Medea." Sandys never became a popular painter
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He painted little, and the dominant See also:influence upon his art was the influence exercised by lofty conceptions of tragic See also:power
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There was in it a sombre intensity and an almost stern beauty which lifted it far above the ideals of the See also:crowd
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The Scandinavian Sagas and the Morte d'See also:Arthur gave him subjects after his own See also:heart
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" The Valkyrie " and " Morgan le Fay " represent his work at its very best
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He made a number of See also:chalk drawings of famous men of letters, including See also:Tennyson, See also:Browning, See also:Matthew See also:Arnold, and See also: See also See also:Esther See also:Wood, The Artist (See also:Winter number, 1896) . |
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