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6$' THE WORKS OR
felves only witli having known how to copy it as
the occasion has represented, or as they have ge-
nerally found it.
It appears to me that one might compare
this style of painting to the style of comic poe-
try, which uses the artifice of poefy, without
employing poetical ideas. In this style have
excellently Succeeded some Dutch and Flemings,
such as Rembrant, Gerard Dau, Teniers, and
others; but the belt examples of that style are
the works of James Velasquez; and if Titian is
fuperior to him in colouring, the Spaniards sur-
paffed the Venetian by much in the know-
ledge of light and thade, as also in aerial per-
fpe&ive, which are the mdst necessary parts in
that style, because by their meansit gives an idea
os truth, natural objects not being able to sub-
sift without having relief and distance between
them, and may be of the most beautiful or most
ordinary colouring. Whoever would witli of
this kind any thing more than is to be found
in the works of Velasquez, can only find it in
nature itself; but he will find the most necessary
parts in that author.
It will be easy to find that which corresponds
with any style, when one considers, that the
parts of imitation ought to be consident with
the first idea proposed by the artist; for which
reason I shall pass under silence different other
styles, more or less perfect, which refer to the
one or the other before mentioned.
I fear I shall disgust too much a great num-
ber of Amateurs- held as intelligent men, by
felves only witli having known how to copy it as
the occasion has represented, or as they have ge-
nerally found it.
It appears to me that one might compare
this style of painting to the style of comic poe-
try, which uses the artifice of poefy, without
employing poetical ideas. In this style have
excellently Succeeded some Dutch and Flemings,
such as Rembrant, Gerard Dau, Teniers, and
others; but the belt examples of that style are
the works of James Velasquez; and if Titian is
fuperior to him in colouring, the Spaniards sur-
paffed the Venetian by much in the know-
ledge of light and thade, as also in aerial per-
fpe&ive, which are the mdst necessary parts in
that style, because by their meansit gives an idea
os truth, natural objects not being able to sub-
sift without having relief and distance between
them, and may be of the most beautiful or most
ordinary colouring. Whoever would witli of
this kind any thing more than is to be found
in the works of Velasquez, can only find it in
nature itself; but he will find the most necessary
parts in that author.
It will be easy to find that which corresponds
with any style, when one considers, that the
parts of imitation ought to be consident with
the first idea proposed by the artist; for which
reason I shall pass under silence different other
styles, more or less perfect, which refer to the
one or the other before mentioned.
I fear I shall disgust too much a great num-
ber of Amateurs- held as intelligent men, by