Catalogue Of Miniature Portraits Landscapes And Other Pieces PDF Download

Excerpt from Catalogue of Miniature Portraits, Landscapes, and Other Pieces Not far from the close of the year 1856, several of the friends or Charles Fraser, Esq, impressed by a sense of the value and number of his paintings, conceived the design of collecting together as many of them as possible, for public exhibition. This object they cherished not only for their own gratification, bat as an honor especially due to the Artist, a tribute to bis art, and an entertainment likely to prove at once gratifying and instructive to tho taste of the community. They saw great difficulties in the way, partly on account of the widely scattered localities in which the achievements of fifty or sixty years had been scattered, and partly from the reluctance of the proprietors of such treasures to surrender them to the contingencies of a general exhibition. Yet unwilling to relinquish their design, they proceeded, after having secured the hesitating permission and concurrence of Mr. Fraser himself in regard to the movement, to publish in the daily papers the following appeal: "Fraser Gallery. To the Public. It is well known that there are extant, in Charleston and its vicinity a considerable number of miscellaneous Paintings, including several hundred exquisite miniature Portraits, executed by Charles Fraser, Esq. An extensive and increasing desire baa for some time been entertained, that as many of these Paintings as possible should be collected at an early day, and exhibited to the public. By this method it is judged that an appropriate honor may be rendered to the revered Artist, and that his friends and other lovers of art may be indulged with the privilege, not otherwise to be procured, of beholding, at one favorable opportunity, the principal achievements of his long and industrious life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.