Howard, Frank: Colour, as a means of art: being an adaptation of the experience of professors to the practice of amateurs (London, 1838)

INTRODUCTION.

Sir Joshua Reynolds in one of his Discourses has
stated, that the Edifice of Art has been gradually
raised by the contributions of the great men of
past ages, and that although every addition to
knowledge required the exertion of a mind far in
advance of its contemporaries to effect it, the results
have now become the common property of all
artists, and may easily be appropriated by every
Student—" that much may now be taught, which
it required vast genius to discover."

It will not be necessary to adduce any argument
in support of this proposition. The difference of
opinion will principally refer to " what part can be
taught ?" And hereon there have been as great
divisions and disputes as have arisen with regard to
the part of the pig that was forbidden to be eaten