"Coexisting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was in a state of intoxication.[52] His second wife may have been a worthier woman, but she was drawn from the lowest class, and had been accustomed to sell sheeps' heads and trotters in the butchers' market. Without doubt Jan Steen had extraordinary genius coexisting with his coarse, careless nature and jovial habits, and he must have worked with great facility, since, in spite of his idleness and comparatively early death, he left as many as two hundred pictures, rendered him extremely popular. Besides his favourite subjects, such as 'The Family Jollification,' ...
— The Old Masters and Their Pictures - For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art • Sarah Tytler |
