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ETCHINGS OF RUSTIC FIGURES,
&c. &c.
In no age and in no country perhaps have the fine arts met that public
patronage which they happily experience in England in the nineteenth
century. Every respectable member of the superior classes of society ap-
pears emulous to afford his children the advantages of an enlightened
education: hence the most distinguished professors in every branch of
science have ample employment in communicating their knowledge to the
rising generation. The art of painting, among the first in utility, forms a
material feature in the plan of education ; and the encouragement which
its professors have experienced, has called forth their utmost energies in
producing works that will facilitate the improvement of their disciples :
preceptive books, upon almost every department of the art, have been
Published. The little work here offered to the public will, it is hoped,
contribute something to the general stock of information.
Landscape-painting has long been cultivated with the utmost suc-
cess by British artists, and works have been produced by them that rival
those of the Italian, Flemish, or other distinguished ancient schools.
The rage for making tours, which has so long distinguished the Bri-
tish people, has increased for several years, until it has become the pre-
vailing taste of the higher families to explore the country in search of the
picturesque. Numerous portfolios are filled every summer with topogra-
phical studies made by amateurs, as well as artists, during these excursions,
untd those who remain at home can indulge in viewing the romantic and
rural scenery of our beautiful island by their fire-side.
&c. &c.
In no age and in no country perhaps have the fine arts met that public
patronage which they happily experience in England in the nineteenth
century. Every respectable member of the superior classes of society ap-
pears emulous to afford his children the advantages of an enlightened
education: hence the most distinguished professors in every branch of
science have ample employment in communicating their knowledge to the
rising generation. The art of painting, among the first in utility, forms a
material feature in the plan of education ; and the encouragement which
its professors have experienced, has called forth their utmost energies in
producing works that will facilitate the improvement of their disciples :
preceptive books, upon almost every department of the art, have been
Published. The little work here offered to the public will, it is hoped,
contribute something to the general stock of information.
Landscape-painting has long been cultivated with the utmost suc-
cess by British artists, and works have been produced by them that rival
those of the Italian, Flemish, or other distinguished ancient schools.
The rage for making tours, which has so long distinguished the Bri-
tish people, has increased for several years, until it has become the pre-
vailing taste of the higher families to explore the country in search of the
picturesque. Numerous portfolios are filled every summer with topogra-
phical studies made by amateurs, as well as artists, during these excursions,
untd those who remain at home can indulge in viewing the romantic and
rural scenery of our beautiful island by their fire-side.