Charles Sumner: “Pride and ostentation in the king and the great aristocracy created a…”

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Pride and ostentation in the king and the great aristocracy created a demand, which the genius of the age supplied.

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Sumner discusses how pride and ostentation among the aristocracy created a demand for art, which was met by the genius of the time.

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Charles Sumner: “Pride and ostentation in the king and the great aristocracy created a demand, which the genius of the age supplied.”