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)

Whether

or when

LIGHT AND SHADE IN PAINTING. . 45

" The glorious sun
Stays in his course and plays the alchemist;
Turning with splendour of his precious eye
The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold."

" Light thickens ; and the crow
Makes wing to the rooky wood."

or when he bids

" Thick night
Pall herself in the dunnest smoke of hell !''

we have him adopting the softness and breadth of Coreggio, the
splendour and gorgeous effects of Veronese, Rubens, or Cuyp, or the
ominous twilight and midnight darkness of Rembrandt or Michael Angelo
Caravaggio. His light and shade is the chiaroscuro of nature passing
through a mind susceptible of its finest impressions, and capable of
placing such effects before the eye of the spectator u unshorn of their
beams," or unimpaired in their sublimity.

FINIS.

C. aud C. Whittiogham, Chiswick.