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Claude Lorraine
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or A great landscape painter, born in Lorraine, of poor parents, and apprenticed to a pastry-cook; went as such to Rome; became servant and colour-grinder to Tassi, who instructed him in his art; by assiduous study of nature in all her aspects attained to fame; was eminent in his treatment of aërial perspective, and an artist whom it was Turner's ambition to rival; he was eminent as an etcher as well as a painter; Turner left one of his finest works to the English nation on condition that it should hang side by side of a masterpiece of Claude, which it now does; his pictures are found in every gallery in Europe, and a goodly number of them are to be met with in England; there are in the St. Petersburg gallery four pieces of exquisite workmanship, entitled "Morning," "Noon," "Evening," and "Twilight" (1600-1682).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Claude Lorraine'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/c/claude-lorraine.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
