Memoranda of art and artists, anecdotal and biographical

MEMORANDA
ART AND ARTISTS,
Anecdotal and Biographical.
COLLECTED AND ARRANGED
By JOSEPH SANDELL.
London:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & Co., Stationers’ Hall Court, E.C. AND FIELD & TUER, 50, Leadenhall Street, E.C. 1871.
AI 718 FIELD & TUER LEADENHALL ST LONDON
PREFACE.
THE collection of the Anecdotes now offered to the public has been a work of some few years, but it has also been a pleasure. Loving Art, I have taken a deep interest in the light thrown by them on the character and career of the great artists whose works have done so much to elevate and refine mankind. These anecdotes have been culled from various sources; and though many of them have doubtless been several times related, yet some, it is believed, have never before been published in a collected form. Mr. Henry Ottley, in the Preface to his “Supplement to Bryan’s Dictionary of Painters,” remarks that many artists to whom he had applied for materials for biography, did not answer his letters, and that others declined from a feeling of diffidence to give him the required information. I have found a similar difficulty in obtaining anecdotes by applying to the artist friends with whom I have the honour of being acquainted. My work has, therefore, been to seek materials from other sources; to select, arrange, and, in some instances, abridge. Whenever it was possible to give the authority for a story, this has been done. The anecdotes are arranged in groups, according to the artist to whom they relate; and for convenience of reference, the names of artists are given alphabetically. It is hoped that this little volume, while serving to wile away a leisure hour, may at the same time do something to arouse the reader’s interest in the men who have devoted their lives to the service of Art, and so to the instruction and well-being of their fellow-men.
J. S.
Walham Green, London, 1871.