Excerpt from Modern Painters, Vol. 1: Part I-II Whatever has been generally affirmed of the old schools >f landscape-painting is founded on familiar acquaintance zvith every important work of art, from Antwerp to Naples. Dut it would be useless, where close and immediate compari on with Works in 'our own Academy is desirable, to refer to he details of pictures at Rome or Munich and it would be im Jossible to speak at once with just feeling, as regarded the oossessor, and just freedom, as regarded the public, of pict 1res in private galleries. Whatever particular references 1a've been made for illustration, have been therefore confined, ts far as was in my power, to works in the National and Dul vvich Galleries. 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.