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SCHOLARS AND IMITATORS
OF
NICHOLAS POUSSIN.
Although the peculiar beauties inherent in the Works of
this learned Painter, are not of a character to attract and win
the applause of the many, they have at all times been the
admiration of the learned in art, and of the classical scholar.
If the artist suffered in his feelings from the envious persecu-
tions of a few contemporary painters, whose works have long
since mingled with the multitude of like pretenders, posterity
has done ample justice to his fame, both by their commenda-
tions and by the high prices paid for his pictures. Many
painters, of considerable talents, were therefore excited to
imitate his style, or copy his works, and this has been done on
some occasions so successfully, as to require the experienced
eye to discover the real from the surreptitious.
Sebastian Bourdon. There is amply sufficient in this
excellent artist’s pictures to justify an opinion, that he was
either a scholar of Poussin, or made his works the models for
his style in painting. He went, while young, to Rome, and
there became acquainted with Claude Lorraine and Nicholas
Poussin; and from the example and learned conversation of
such eminent artists, particularly of the latter, it is but
reasonable to suppose he obtained much valuable instruction in
his profession. He painted many capital pictures, both in
history and landscape, which remind the connoisseur of the
SCHOLARS AND IMITATORS
OF
NICHOLAS POUSSIN.
Although the peculiar beauties inherent in the Works of
this learned Painter, are not of a character to attract and win
the applause of the many, they have at all times been the
admiration of the learned in art, and of the classical scholar.
If the artist suffered in his feelings from the envious persecu-
tions of a few contemporary painters, whose works have long
since mingled with the multitude of like pretenders, posterity
has done ample justice to his fame, both by their commenda-
tions and by the high prices paid for his pictures. Many
painters, of considerable talents, were therefore excited to
imitate his style, or copy his works, and this has been done on
some occasions so successfully, as to require the experienced
eye to discover the real from the surreptitious.
Sebastian Bourdon. There is amply sufficient in this
excellent artist’s pictures to justify an opinion, that he was
either a scholar of Poussin, or made his works the models for
his style in painting. He went, while young, to Rome, and
there became acquainted with Claude Lorraine and Nicholas
Poussin; and from the example and learned conversation of
such eminent artists, particularly of the latter, it is but
reasonable to suppose he obtained much valuable instruction in
his profession. He painted many capital pictures, both in
history and landscape, which remind the connoisseur of the