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 _ARTIST-BIOGRAPHIES._

 DUeRER.

 BOSTON:
 HOUGHTON, OSGOOD, AND COMPANY.

 The Riverside Press, Cambridge.

 1879.




 COPYRIGHT.
 BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.
 1877.

 FRANKLIN PRESS:
 RAND, AVERY, AND COMPANY,
 BOSTON.




ARTIST-BIOGRAPHIES.

PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT.


The growth of a popular interest in art and its history has been very
rapid during the last decade of American life, and is still in
progress. This interest is especially directed towards the lives of
artists themselves; and a general demand exists for a uniform series
of biographies of those most eminent, which shall possess the
qualities of reliability, compactness, and cheapness.

To answer this demand the present series has been projected. The
publishers have intrusted its preparation to Mr. M. F. Sweetser, whose
qualities of thoroughness in research and fidelity in statement have
been proved in other fields of authorship. It is believed that by the
omission of much critical and discursive matter commonly found in art
biographies, an account of an artist's life may be presented, which is
at once truthful and attractive, within the limits prescribed for
these volumes.

The series will be published at the rate of one or two volumes each
month, at 50 cents each volume, and will contain the lives of the most
famous artists of mediaeval and modern times. It will include the lives
of many of the following:--

 Raphael,                Claude,             Van Dyck,
 Michael Angelo,         Poussin,            Gainsborough,
 Leonardo da Vinci,      Delacroix,