Buchanan, William: Memoirs of painting: with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French Revolution (Band 1) (London: Ackermann, 1824)

INTRODUCTION.

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revolution constitutes one of the leading
features of the following pages, the amateur
will likewise find the subject illustrated by
sketches of character of the principal paint-
ers of the various schools, and his at-
tention invariably directed to those works
which have been always regarded as the
chefs-d’oeuvre of art, on which he may with
confidence form a correct taste and judg-
ment.