The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 207
l size, meet together. If a painter is torepresent Pretarch at the feet of Laura, I would not havehim make her ugly, though I know she was so in reality.Posterity, which knows nothing of great men but bytheir actions that are worthy of it, and whose imagina-tion is animated and exalted iu thinking… … Z IK r ~ : ~~~~= VANDYCK. The pupil, and sometimes the rival of Rubens, Van*dyck deservedly maintains the second rank among thepainters of the Flemish school. Rubens undoubtedlypossessed a more ardent genius and a more fertile ima-gination ; he designed with more classical skill, anddisplayed…
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