THE

COMPLETE WORKS

OF

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS,

FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

WITH AN

ORIGINAL MEMOIR, AND ANECDOTES

OF

THE AUTHOR.

Quietè et purè atque eleganter actæ
Ætatis placida ac lenis recordatio.-Cicero.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THOMAS MʻLEAN, 26, HAYMARKET.

1824.

CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

Epistle to Sir Joshua Reynolds, by William Mason,

M. A. on the publication of Du Fresnoy's Art of

Painting

Page 3

Life of Du Fresnoy

13

The Art of Painting, by Charles Alphonse Du

Fresnoy, translated into English verse by William

Mason, M. A. with Annotations by Sir J. Rey-

nolds

23

.

Notes on the Art of Painting

91

Table of the Rules contained in the Art of Painting 165

Sentiments of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy on the

Works of the principal and best Painters of the

two last ages, 1610-11

173

Mr. Dryden's Preface to Du Fresnoy, with a paral-

lel between Poetry and Painting

189

Poetical Epistle from Mr. Pope to Mr. Jervas 241