Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of Pictures in Pastel, Oil, and Water Colors by the Late J. Wells Champney, A. N. A: To Be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale on the Evenings Herein Stated Champney because they form such a large part of the collection here, and because not only of their excellence, but because also they are the results of the last years of his life, through which he was singularly known. But where Mr. Champney was not known, and where this collection is relatively a surprise, are his water colors from nature. They m not only often very beautiful of themselves, as more things to look at, but they have a note of sincerity, of representation of the very moment, which has the ums quality of truthfulness that I have noted in the copies. The time of day, the weather, even the very different kind of light in France or England are there. This is true even in such small matters as the comer of a walk at Versailles, where there may be noth ing but a statue and the dusty surface of the path. Had Mr. Champney followed out this side of painting, We should have had a. Series of landscape paintings Oi great value, marked by the one greatest of all qualities, that of absorption in the subject. These studies are all labors of love; they were often made in the resting spaces of a passionate worker to whom hard work was in itself a pleasure, and they have that captivating look of the thing done for pleasure, for the mere interest of the moment. 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.