Excerpt from The George A. Hearn Gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art: In the City of New York in the Year MCMVIThe fullness of his heart. His art, in which he was wholly self-taught, was his life, and he was intensely in earnest in his ch'ort to express what he Saw and felt. His death, while on a visit to Scotland in 1894, assumed the importance of a national loss, so highly was he esteemed and so thoroughly did his art express the landscape ideal of the country.00.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.