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Hereditary Genius
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Murillo, Bartolome Estevan (1613—1685, aet. 72). Few have a juster claim to
originality than this admirable Spanish painter. He showed early inclination to
the art. He was naturally humble-minded and retiring, and remarkably good and
charitable, even to his own impoverishment.
u. Juan del Castillo, a painter of considerable merit, and the instructor of some of
the greatest artists in Spain, namely, Murillo, Alonzo Cano, and Pedro de
Moya.
u. Augustin Castillo, a good painter.
uS. Antonio del Castillo, y Salvedra; eminent painter as regards composition and
design, but inferior in colouring. He sank into a despondency after visiting
Seville, where he first saw a collection of Murillo's pictures, so much superior
to his own, and he died of it.
Ostade, Adrian van (1610—1685, aet. 75); eminent painter of Dutch domestic
scenes and grotesque subjects.
B. Isaac van Ostade; began by copying his brother's style without much success,
but afterwards he adopted a manner of his own, and became a well-known
painter. He died in the prime of life.
Parmegiano. See MAZZUOLI.
Ponte, Francesco da (the Elder), (1475—1530, aet. 55); the head of the family of the
Bassanos, and the founder of the school distinguished by their name.
S. Giacomo da Ponte (called Il Bassano), (1510—1592, aet. aet. 82); eminent artist;
had extraordinary invention and facility of execution. He had four sons, as
follow, all well-known painters:—
P. Francesco da Ponte (the Younger); had eminent talents. He had attacks of
melancholy, and committed suicide aet. 49.
P. Giovanni Battista da Ponte, noticeable as a most precise copyist of the works of
his father, Giacomo.
P. Leandro da Ponte; celebrated portrait painter. P. Girolamo da; excellent copyist
of his father's works.
Potter, Paul; admirable Dutch painter of animals; before he was aet. 15, his works
were held in the highest estimation.
F. Peter Potter, landscape painter, whose works are now rare, but they must have
been of considerable merit, judging from the prints engraved from them by P.
Nolpe.
Raffaelle. See SANZIO.
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