| Show A GREAT FRENCH j coull UT have 11 a a rise relater bt but I 1 for color bilida BIlM da charle charles Meryon bom born in 1821 brought up to the navy going first la in I 1 1837 to the naval school at brest ay says I 1 fall pall mall biall gazette aa As a youth he sailed round tle the world he ile touched at athene athens touched at the then coasts of new zealand made sketches P a few of which in day days when moat most ot of hta big greater work wai was done he used aj As material for some of hta his etchings etch lna art even then occupied him and deeply interested aa as be he soon got to be la in it be he seema seems to have bad had a notion that it vine aa less dignified than the profession of the navy and after awhile he chose deliberately the tb leu lose dIgn lOed because it was the less dignified II 11 its would bare have us believe so 0 o at any rate I 1 be wished his father to believe EO so and in 1845 having served creditably and become a lieutenant be resigned bla his commission A painter he could not 4 ft be the gods who had given him even in his youth a poetic vi ion and a firmness of band hand had denied him the true sight of color and I 1 teeing seeing banging hanging up in the salon of NL L burty burly who knew him a large impresa impressive a five sive pastel ot of a hip ship cleaving clearing her way I 1 through wide deep waters and the sea was red and the sunset sky was green for If meryon eryon was color blind he would have to be an engraver Us he entered the workroom ot of one X diery to whom in after times as his wor wont wort t 41 1 was he engraved some verses of bs A writing verses sincere and eda s tol diery mary mon it 6 daltre the etchings of Zee manth it dutchman gave him the desire to etch 1 4 he lie copied with freedom and Int interest ereal A several of leemans Ze emana emans neat little plates and addressed addre sed him with praises oa on 1 another little copper like the one ts diery a des mat mate lots 11 |
