Excerpt from New Biographical Dictionary, and American Remembrancer, Vol. 4 In his colouring, there is firength, to 1ndnefs and boldnefs; but his men want dignity, and his women giace. The good fenfe of the hatlou is Charafterifcd in his pmtraits, from which, you may fee that he liv ed m an age when neither enthufiaim nor fervility was predominant. Yet with a pencil fo firm, poffeffed of a numerous and excellent colleelion of drawings, full ofthe theory, and profound in refleeiions on his art, he drew nothing well below the head, and was void of imagtnatton. His attitudes, draperies and back grounds are inf1pid and unmeaning; fo ill did he apply to his own praflice the fagacious rules and hints he bellow ed on others. Though he wrote w1t'h fire and judg paintings owed little toeither. No man dived deeper into the inexhauftible fiores of Raphael, or was more fmitten with the native lullre of Vandyck. Yet though capable of tai'ting the elevation of the one, and the elegance of the other, he could never contrive to fee with their eyes, when he was) to copy nature him felf. One wonders that he could comment upon their works fo well, and imitate them fo little. 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.