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Francis Panby, the greatest painter of poetic landscape since Turner, died on the 9th of this month, at his house, near Kxmouth, aged G8. It cannot be said that Danbv had not. reaped full honours, for all the world admired the romantic beauty of his pictures, and esteemed the genius that led him to devote his life to the more intellectual kind of landscape painting. But it will long he remembered as n disgrace to tne Academy that Francis Panby should have boon suffered to die without the fullest acknowledgment of bis great abilities and his position in the public regard. Io excuses can atone for this neglect of a great artist’s merits, and no bye-laws should bo upheld that can act so unfairly. For many years Panby stood at the head ot the list of Associates—but again and again be had tosuffertho mortification of being passed over. Panby first made a sensation by his picture in the manner of John Martin, “ The Opening of the Sixth Seal but he soon adopted a more real and rational style of subject, in those lovely dreams of fancy which wo remember so well, as “ The Enchanted Island “ The Song of the Wood Nymph to the Rising Sun/’ *4 The Evening Gun,” and, perhaps, best of all, hiR last great effort, Phoebus striking his rayB of light through the foam of the sea to give birth to the Queen of beauty (“Venus Anadyomene”)— a charming fancy, full of rapturous love tor nature in one of her loveiiest aspects—the rosy dawn of morning. This picture ought to have placed Danby in the Academy, if he had never painted others of equal title, for it was too characteristic of his style. It is sad to think bo senBiti ve and able a painter may have had bis last hours hastened and embittered by the thought of this neglect by his fellows—that this bravo bestowmcnt of bis fondest aims ehould have been still met with the same cold Bhade of academic injustice.
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London Atlas
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Mar 02, 1861
Page 14
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Adam N.
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