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world; and would probably have been yet better, had Van Dyck's
model been followed : but some painters possibly finding themselves
incapable of succeeding in his way, and having found their account
in introducing a false take, others have followed their example, and
forsaking the study of nature, have prokituted a noble art, chusing
to exchange the honourable character of good painters for that
sordid one of professed mercenary flatterers, and so much worse than
the meanest of these, in that they give under their hands, and to be
seen of every body, what those only utter in words, and to those
chiefly who they find weak enough to be their dupes.
As for the other branches of Painting, some few of sevcral nations
have been excellent in them; as the Borgognone for battles,
Michelangelo the Battaglia and Campadoglio for fruit; Father
Segers, Mario del Fiori, and Baptik for flowers; Salvator Rosa,
Claude Lorrain, and Gasper Poussin for landscapes; Brower and
Hemskirk for drolls; Persellis and Vande-Velde for sea-pieces;
and several others. But I am not disposed to enlarge on this
article.
^/INVENTION,
JOEING determined as to the hikory that is to be painted, the
first thing the painter has to do, is to make himself maker of it as
delivered from hikorians, or otherwise; and then to consider how
to improve it, keeping within the bounds of probability. Thus the
sculptors imitated nature ; and thus the bed historians have related
their stories. No body can imagine (for example) that Livy, or
Thucydides, had dire&, express authorities for all the speeches
they have given us at length, or even for all the incidents they have
delivered to us as fasfs; but they have made their (lories as beauti^
ful, and considerable as they could; and this with very good reason,
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world; and would probably have been yet better, had Van Dyck's
model been followed : but some painters possibly finding themselves
incapable of succeeding in his way, and having found their account
in introducing a false take, others have followed their example, and
forsaking the study of nature, have prokituted a noble art, chusing
to exchange the honourable character of good painters for that
sordid one of professed mercenary flatterers, and so much worse than
the meanest of these, in that they give under their hands, and to be
seen of every body, what those only utter in words, and to those
chiefly who they find weak enough to be their dupes.
As for the other branches of Painting, some few of sevcral nations
have been excellent in them; as the Borgognone for battles,
Michelangelo the Battaglia and Campadoglio for fruit; Father
Segers, Mario del Fiori, and Baptik for flowers; Salvator Rosa,
Claude Lorrain, and Gasper Poussin for landscapes; Brower and
Hemskirk for drolls; Persellis and Vande-Velde for sea-pieces;
and several others. But I am not disposed to enlarge on this
article.
^/INVENTION,
JOEING determined as to the hikory that is to be painted, the
first thing the painter has to do, is to make himself maker of it as
delivered from hikorians, or otherwise; and then to consider how
to improve it, keeping within the bounds of probability. Thus the
sculptors imitated nature ; and thus the bed historians have related
their stories. No body can imagine (for example) that Livy, or
Thucydides, had dire&, express authorities for all the speeches
they have given us at length, or even for all the incidents they have
delivered to us as fasfs; but they have made their (lories as beauti^
ful, and considerable as they could; and this with very good reason,
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