A course of lectures on drawing, painting and engraving : considered as branches of elegant education, delivered in the saloon of the Royal Institution in successive seasons, and read subsequently at the Russell Institution (1821)

Craig, W. M. (William Marshall), approximately 1765-approximately 1834, Royal Institution of Great Britain, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, publisher, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer · London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row · leaf 338

An illustration from A course of lectures on drawing, painting and engraving : considered as branches of elegant education, delivered in the saloon of the Royal Institution in successive seasons, and read subsequently at the Russell Institution, 1821, leaf 338 — LECTURE VI. Portrait painting is that practice of the art which applies itself to the most pleas- ing modes of representing truly the per- sons and features of individuals. I have ever considered this branch of art as one of the painter’s indispensable duties; but it has been severely reprobated,…

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