Excerpt from A Treatise on the Art of Painting, in All Its Branches, Vol. 1 of 2: Accompanied by Seventy Engraved Plates, and Exemplified by Remarks on the Paintings of the Best Masters How Often do we see masters known by their disciples. Little and slovenly masters never bring up neat and curious painters, though it sometimes happens, that a neat master may rear a slovenly disciple. And the reason is plain; for good. 111 struction is not alone sufficient, without a mind qualified to understand it; careless ness being 1the usual parent of a bad picture; and so infecting an evil will continue, as long' as the artist remains in his ignorance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.