Author: LIONEL. LINDSAY

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780331797503

Excerpt from Conrad Martens: The Man and His Art Had Martens remained in England. I believe that-urged by ambition and fortified by contemporary standards of work he would have left a name high amongst the water-colourists of his day. It was his fate, happily for us, to be the Pilgrim Father of art at the Antipodes, and to lay the corner stone of our Landscape Art. I wish to express my thanks for much valuable assistance in the preparation of this book: To Mr. William Dixson, for carefully collected data concerning Martens' life; Mr. C. V. F. Mann, Director of the National Gallery of New South Wales. Whose knowledge of Martens' work is second to none, and with whom I shared the pleasure of selecting from the mass of it the pictures reproduced here; the Trustees of the National Gallery and the Mitchell Library; Miss Macarthur Onslow, Miss Combos, Miss Rose Scott, and Messrs. W. H. Ifould, Hugh Wright. J. J. Quinn. W. H. Hargraves, C. H. Bertie, Neville W. Caey and Joseph Pearson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.