Ireland, John: Hogarth illustrated (Band 3): Variety (London, 1798)

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yet succeeded; nor, unless portrait painters
in general become more honest, and their
customers less vain, is there much reason to,
expect they ever will."

Though thus in a state of warfare with
his brother artists, he was occasionally gra-
tified by the praise of men whose judgment
was universally acknowledged, and whose
sanction became an higher honour, from its
being neither lightly nor indiscriminately
given. Thefollowingletterfrom the facetious
Mr. George Faulkner, noti ces the estimation
in which the author of the Battle of the Books
held the painter of the Battle of the Pictures.

" In dusty piles his pictures lay,
" For no one sent the second pay."

Finding the result of truth so unpropitious to his fame

and fortune, he changed his practice ;

" Two bustos, fraught with every grace,
" A Venus, and Apollo's, face
" He placed in view ;—resolv'd to please,
" Whoever sat, he drew from these."

This succeeded to a tittle,—

" Through all the town his art they prais'd,
" His custom grew, his price was rais'd."