The art of painting, in all its branches : methodically demonstrated by discourses and plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters, and their perfections and oversights laid open (1738)
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711, Fritsch, John Frederick · London : Printed for the author, and sold by J. Brotherton ... [and 17 others] · leaf 22
d to neat Painting; the Reafon of which is, that, notbeing ufed to confider and imitate the Fullnefs of fmall Objects, hemuft therefore be a Stranger to it; befides, it is more eafy to leave outfome Things which we are Mafters of, than to add others which wehave not ftudied, and therefore it muft… … i Of Tenciling, Second Tint, and Beauty. Book I. and a fat and bold Pencil; and therefore are induced to difrelifh everything that is neat and elaborate; but, after all they can fay, tis cer-tain, that he who would handle beft, muft ftudy that Manner whichmoft exactly exhibits the different Natures…
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