painter, Melbourne. Reviewing the Victorian Academy of Art 1872 exhibition the Age noted: 'William the Silent on his sick bed is a Dutch historical drawing by Mr Cornelius Cardinal. The details of the old-fashioned chamber are well carried out; the expression on the face of the bed-ridden man is full of anxious eagerness; but a little more softness imparted to the folds of the drapery, and a closer attention to the anatomical proportions of the human frame, would have materially improved the picture. In the drawing – The Count of Flanders, surprised in the height of revelry by his neglected wife and children – by the same artist, the grouping is excellent, and the expression of scorn and discomfiture, though perhaps a little exaggerated, is well portrayed’ (Age, 16 March 1872). The following year, at the third annual exhibition of the VAA, the same paper noted: 'One great drawback to the absolute success of the exhibition is the paucity of figure subjects, this class being represented only by Mr Chester Earles and Mr Cardinal’ (Age 24 March 1873).
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