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塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯:自助论·摘录 127
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Nor have the most distinguished artists of our own country been born in a position of life more than ordinarily favourable to the culture of artistic genius. Gainsborough and Bacon were the sons of cloth-workers; Barry was an Irish sailor boy, and Maclise a banker’s apprentice at Cork; Opie and Romney, like Inigo Jones, were carpenters; West was the son of a small Quaker farmer in Pennsylvania; Northcote was a watchmaker, Jackson a tailor, and Etty a printer; Reynolds, Wilson, and Wilkie, were the sons of clergymen; Lawrence was the son of a publican, and Turner of a barber. Several of our painters, it is true, originally had some connection with art, though in a very humble way,—such as Flaxman, whose father sold plaster casts; Bird, who ornamented tea-trays; Martin, who was a coach-painter; Wright and Gilpin, who were ship-painters; Chantrey, who was a carver and gilder; and David Cox, Stanfield, and Roberts, who were scene-painters.
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英国最杰出的艺术家们并非都出身于特别有利于艺术培养的家庭。盖恩斯伯勒和培根是布商之子;巴里是爱尔兰水手男孩;麦克利斯是科克的银行学徒;奥皮和罗姆尼像伊尼戈·琼斯一样是木匠;韦斯特是宾夕法尼亚小农场主的儿子;诺斯科特是钟表匠;杰克逊是裁缝;埃蒂是印刷工;雷诺兹、威尔逊和威尔基是牧师的儿子;劳伦斯是酒馆老板的儿子;透纳是理发师的儿子。还有一些画家最初从事卑微的艺术相关工作,如弗拉克斯曼的父亲卖石膏模型,伯德装饰茶盘,马丁是马车油漆工,赖特和吉尔平是船漆工,尚特雷是雕刻镀金匠,大卫·考克斯、斯坦菲尔德和罗伯茨是场景画家。
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