A.L. Baldry (1858–1939)
Author of Millais (Masterpieces in Colour)
About the Author
Image credit: Alfred Lys Baldry
Works by A.L. Baldry
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1858
- Date of death
- 1939-05-28
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Torquay, Devon, England, UK
- Occupations
- painter
art critic
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- Works
- 21
- Members
- 71
- Popularity
- #245,552
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
- 8
- ISBNs
- 3
As a record of some half century of brilliant activity, and of practically unbroken success, the life-story of John Everett Millais is in many respects unlike those which can be told about the majority of artists who have played great parts in the modern art world. He had none of the hard struggle for recognition, or of the fight against adverse circumstances, which have too often embittered the earlier years of men destined to take eventually the highest rank in their profession. Things went well with him from the first; he gained attention at an age when most painters have barely begun to make a bid for popularity, and his position was assured almost before he had arrived at man’s estate. He owed some of his success, no doubt, to his attractive and vigorous personality, but it was due in far greater measure to the extraordinary powers which he manifested from the very outset of his career.… (more)