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)

64 PRACTICAL HINTS ON COLOUR IN PAINTING.

admires not the harmony of colouring alone, but examines by what
artifice one colour is a foil to its neighbour. He looks close into the
tints, examines of what colours they are composed, till he has formed
clear and distinct ideas, and has learned to see in what harmony and
good colouring consist. What is learned in this manner from the works
of others becomes really our own, sinks deep, and is never forgotten;
nay, it is by seizing on this clue that we proceed forward, and get
further and further in enlarging the principles and improving the practice
of our art."

FINIS.

C. and C. Whittin^ham, Chiswick.