The Art of Mr Isaac Snowman

Title : The Art of Mr Isaac Snowman  
Author : Adrian Margaux
Source : Windsor Magazine
Year Published : 1899
Page Count : 12
Image Count : 11
Word Count : 2,467
File Size in MB : 9.6
File Type : PDF

"Quite a chance circumstance determined Mr. Snowman’s course of life for a year after leaving the Academy Schools. One of his school studies, the sketch of a head, happened to get into the hands of a Liverpool art- dealer, who placed it in the window of his shop near the Corn Exchange. There it caught the eye of one of the corn-brokers, who at once bought it. The purchase so pleased him that he ascertained Mr. Snow­ man’s address and wrote to ask him if he would come to Liverpool and paint a portrait of his wife, mentioning liberal terms. The young artist of twenty-two readily accepted the offer, went to Liverpool, and, in the end, spent about twelve months there painting portraits of the corn-broker’s friends. There he might have remained to this day, a fairly prosperous portrait - painter, but for the ambition which called him back to London to paint his first large picture for the Royal Academy, Tales of a Grandfather,” which was well hung and speedily sold. As its title indicated, the work, of which the artist has lost all trace, was in the style of domestic genre in which, during the last six or seven years, Mr. Snowman has done so much."