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Mengs, Anton Raphael; Nibiano, José Nicolás de Azara de [Editor]; Mengs, Anton Raphael [Contr.]
The works of Anthony Raphael Mengs: first painter to His Catholic Majesty Charles III. (Band 3) — London: Faulder, 1796

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162 NOTE OF THE EDITOR..
to leave off in old age, nor can suffer that their
contemporary, Mengs, should rise above them,,
and become their master.
Those either do not look at his works, or
else they look at them with pre-occupation,
and lacerate them without having seen them.
This is a fadl; and in Rome happens frequent
proofs of it. It happened a little time fince,
that whilst in a company of artists, and ^di-
lettanti of every kind, they observed and praised
two portraits of a young Venetian, a coxcomi-
cal painter, not Roman, but of a country
which has never produced painters or sculp-
tors, even os the middling kind (although it
buys sculptures and paintings at a high price),
hearing that this esteemed youth was copy-
ing the portrait os Pope Rezzonico, done by
Mengs, said, (petulanti Jolene caching) ; that
his pencil would lose instead of gaining by that
study. He, however, was ignorant that the
aforesaid youth, during the time he had been
at Rome, had studied only the paintings os
Mengs, and particularly that os the Cabinet os
the Pamiri; which have been laterly engraven.
Harpies could not have done worse. It has
happened to these paintings, as well as to those
of the rooms of the Vatican, that they Rill con-
tinue to engrave them; by which Mengs said,
that they translated Raphael into Venetian.
The sale of them is great, notwithstanding, and.
will be so as long as. amateurs are intelligent
mem

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