a rellie is listed as being a Antique Artist on the 1911 census what do you think that means ???
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Originally posted by Val wish Id never started View Posta rellie is listed as being a Antique Artist on the 1911 census what do you think that means ???Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today ~ follow your dream!
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Val, I found this in google books
The very names of real and imaginary Greek artists were counterfeited to give a colour to the deception, and to increase the ignoble gains derived from it. Anyone who has made gems a study must have noticed, among the public and private collections of Europe, reiterated cases of' a particular subject treated in repetition, not with the slight variation which the antique artist always allowed himself when he copied, whether from a painting, a statue, or a bas-relief, but in a spirit-of intentional and servile copying, whereby the subject has been several times repeated, so as often to leave even the skilful critic at a loss to declare which, among many, was the original.
While the great and wealthy were, during the last centurv, vicing with one another in collecting gems, it was no wonder that the market should be supplied with them, even though ' antique ' works had to be manufactured to order—-a process all the more easy in proportion as the detection of the fraud was difficult; for, in fact, it was next to impossible to detect what- was genuine among so many counterfeits, in an age so thoroughly uncritical. The wheel of Sirletti' at one time, and that of Riga at another, and indeed of a host of most skilful artists at all times in the last century, were busy in producing' such counterfeits: copies of a gem being repeatedly made by the same artist, and distributed to eager collectors or to the hungry agents who supplied them.
Source: The Edinburgh Review By Sydney Smith
- so possibly someone who produced goods made to look like antiques?Elaine
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