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 489
tentimes occafioned by the adjacent Objects: Let him,who doubts this, make Trial of it in a Portrait, by laying a Ground,with Water-colours, on Paper, and after the Face is cut out, placing itagainft the Picture inftead of a Back-ground. But, I think, there is aconvenient Way of preventing the… … Chap. 4. Of Tortraiture. 3T9 ground : Thus we maybe fure of hitting the right Colour, and makehe Painting look agreeable. In order to reprefent an extenfive Back-ground, and chiefly in a fmallPicture, be it an Apartment, or Landskip, fome Shadinefs fhould be con-trived between the Figure and the…
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![An illustration from Joachimi de Sandrart, à Stockau ... Academia nobilissimae artis pictoriae, sive, De veris & genuinis hujusdem proprietatibus, theorematibus, secretis atque requisitis aliis ... : unà cum artificum tam Aegyptiorum, Graecorum & Romanorum, quàm Italorum, Gallorum, Anglorum, Germanorum, Belgarum, aliorumq[ue] ... vitis atque encomiis ... : eorundemque plusquàm ducentis iconibus ... aere expressis, erecta atq[ue] publicata (1683)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-gri_joachimidesa00sand-146-85.webp)
