Picture Visit of the Mistress by American painter

In a picture like The Bright Side, 1865, or The Visit of the Mistress by American painter Winslow Homer, 1876, at the , Washington, there is no attempt to tell any story. But the happy abandon of the negro teamsters in the former is as infectious as the quiet contentment of the latter is satisfying to the observer. The individualities of the people pictured by American painter Winslow Homer are preserved in such a way as to convey to one an exact sense of their feelings, and it is because of this that the pictures appeal to us. They are notable examples of his ability to reproduce the sentiment as well as the appearance of a scene, and in their realism they compare with the best of his work in which the figure appears at all.

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