The morning before his departure he called Olivia and Adam, and the three made a tour of the rooms in search of a suitable place where his easel could be set up and the work begun.
He had reached the easel now and was standing with bent head, an unctuous smile playing about his lips.
We are told that near the close of his career, absorbed in his art, indifferent to the world, "when he was painting at his easel he had come to wipe his brushes on the hinder portions of his dress.
Beside him stand aneasel and an antique bust, perhaps a relic of his former wealth.
After the process of mixing oils with the colors was discovered, pictures on wood or canvas (easel paintings) became common.
Paris has the best of his easel pictures--the "Monna Lisa.
Now look at the picture itself, Mr. Aylwin,' he continued, as though it were upon an easel before me.
He differs from most of his contemporaries in being at his best in easel pictures.
Such themes are seductively melancholy, and it is so amusing to paint in thoroughly wild scenes where one has to fix one's easel deep down in the stones to prevent the wind from blowing everything over.
On a draped easel stands a large mounted plaque of gorgeous Florida poinsettias, painted by her mother in a method discovered by herself, a replica of the design she furnished to the Queen.
Before I could pass round the easel into the open space I was arrested by overhearing a conversation between Cyril, Sinfi, and Wilderspin.
People came to my poor studio, and my pictures were bought from my easel as fast as I could paint them.
She bustled up and, throwing off the Japanese finery, left the room, while Cyril removed the drawing from the easel and hid it away.
Entering the studio, I found myself behind a tall easelwhere Cyril was at work.
Of the rest of the group Weir, Reinhart, Beckwith, Melchers, and McEwen returned to their easel picture work after the Chicago fair, with only an occasional decoration.
The easelpicture has more detail, is placed in a frame when finished, and is destined to make a decorative spot on the walls.
At the schools he was very popular, and his easel was the favorite loafing place for the other members of his class.
There stood the easel on which, through Christine's gifted touch, his painted face had pleaded with scarcely less eloquence, till he blotted it out with his own hand.
With a cold, white face, and a burnished gleam in her eyes, she went to the easel and commenced painting out the ominous black stain.
In a part half-filled with antiquated lumber, and seldom entered, she saw near a window facing the east aneasel with canvas upon it.
When left alone she sat down at her easel and tried to restore the expression that had so delighted her on the preceding day.
Seated at her easel she painted eagerly and rapidly, while he measured the space over and around the fireplace with a view to its ornamentation.
And now, relieved of duties in the early morning, he arranged an old easel in the attic of the store, a sort of general lumber-room, yet with a good light for his purpose.
You seem to have a study on your easel there," said Dennis, as they stood together in the studio.
I will reproduce that face as it was before he so insolently destroyed it;" and she bent over her easel with an expression not at all in harmony with her work.
You expect her to get down from the easel and say something characteristic.
Oh, I lead a dog's life," he said, as he planted his easel down on the gravel.
He turned the easel back into the room again, where it stood fronting Philip.
Evelyn was already moving the easel into position, and he just raised his eyebrows as if some preposterous riddle had been asked him.
He went to hiseasel and uncovered the half-finished picture on it, and gazed at it with something that was in reality a dumb appeal to the dumb canvas to help him.
He took the canvas on the easeland held it up to the light.
But there was one picture on an easel which Agnes had not seen before.
She was standing in front of the easel on which her last half-finished drawing rested.
She glanced at the portrait on the easel and seemed to see once again the form of Dick Westwood beside the window through which he had gone to his death.
But see the result, those very pictures from the easel of both painters bring higher prices than the more favoured of their likenesses, from being intrinsically fine works of art.
The neighbourhood of the Rhine was now given up for the city of Amsterdam, where he set up his easel in the year 1628, under the patronage of the Burgomaster Six, and other wealthy admirers of the fine arts.
By the easel on a camp-stool, brushes, a palette, and box of colours.
Then she saw that there stood on the easel a drawing-board; on that was a sheet of paper, which showed drawings of two heads in crayon.
Then, without looking at her, he sat down near an easel on which was his painting of the temples of Paestum.
He moved away and seemed to be busy with a picture; it was on an easel so placed that, as he stood before it, he also overlooked Miriam at her needlework.
On the easel stood the water-colour of The Banners, with its noble refinement.
She put them away in portfolios; she removed them from easel and board; she saved him from wandering too far from The Banners; and this was the one thing that he completed.
The easel stood beneath these three old pictures, sustaining one that had been recently commenced.
Standing before her easel, theeasel dragged into the window, the curtains tugged back, she worked away with a rapid brush.
The hopeless muddle on the easel was dabbed at, made more and more oily.
An empty easel and several portfolios occupied one front window; in the other, near the fireplace, was a round table, strewn with study books and work-baskets.
We have a humourist here," he said to himself; and to restore his gravity, he began walking up and down the room; but every time he passed the easel he laughed again.
