"When in 1841 William Henry Fox discovered how a photographic image could be attached permanently to paper, it seemed to many that the art of painting had been dealt a body blow from which it would never recover.  In fact, some painters were so convinced that their careers as artists were in danger that they began trying to paint with a photographic realism that they had never tried before..."

~ RURAL LIFE, Adrian Vincent, Bloomsbury Books, 1987.