Burnet, John: A treatise on painting: in four parts: Consisting of an essay on the education of the eye with reference to painting, ann four parts. Consisting of an essay on the education of the eye with reference to painting, and practid practical hints on composition, chiaroscuro and colour (London, 1837)

PRACTICAL HINTS

COLOUR IN PAINTING.

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VENETIAN, FLEMISH, AND DUTCH SCHOOLS.

BY JOHN BURNET.

u With respect to Colouring, though it may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet
it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great
and the little in the study of a painter.*' sin j. Reynolds.

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1827.