The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters : containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints : with reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern, being the most perfect work of the kind extant (1754)
Piles, Roger de, 1635-1709, Buckeridge, Bainbrigg, 1668-1733. Essay towards an English school of painting · London : Printed for T. Payne · leaf 24
THE IDEA Of a Perfeft PAINTER: O R, Rules for forming a right judgmenton the works of the PAINTERS. B O O K I. ENIUS is the firft thing we mudfuppofe in a Painter •, tis a part ofhim that cannot be acquired by ftudyor labour. It fhould be great to an-fwer the Greatnefs of an art, which^ includes fo… … 2 <tbe Art o/PAINTING. ture as his object. He muft have an image of herin his mind, not only as he happens to fee her inparticular fubjects, but as fhe ought to be in herfelf,and as fhe woud be, were fhe not hindered by cer-tain accidents. Now it being very difficult to meet with thisperfect…
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