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Show GUbert Stuart. It was the fashion of bis time to try to paint great pictures. From this be had tbe hardihood to sepurate himself, him-self, reaching with a true originality of feeling after what really Interested blm, the big essentials in the subjects that he studied Thus he put himself In line with tbe great painters, shaking shak-ing himself free from the fads and nostrums of his time, and betaking himself straight to Dature. Io the story of American art he holds s unique and dignified position. Charles V. Caffln. , - I |