...Raffkelle and Michael Angelo as he thought would be most conducive to his future excellence ;' and ' he avoided all engagements for copying works of art for the various travellers at that time in Rome. ' • * Whilst they,' (the Cicerones,) says he in a letter to Barry, • are endeavouring to prevent...

...well-directed study acquired, whilst he contemplated the best works of the best masters, that grace of thinking to which he was principally indebted for...I was at Rome, I was very little employed by them, and that little I always considered as so much time lost." Mr. Reynolds was too much occupied in his...

...young artists, instead of " injuring them, they are in my opinion " doing them the greatest service. Whilst " I was at Rome I was very little employed " by them, and that little I always consider" ed as so much time lost ; copying those " ornamental pictures which...

...well-directed study acquired, while he contemplated the best works of the best masters, that grace of thinking, to which he was principally indebted for his subsequent reputation as a portraitpainter." Much, however, as Reynolds in his lectures inculcates the necessity of constantly...

...would be most conducive to his future excellence; and, by his welldirected studies, acquired that grace of thinking, to which he was principally indebted for his subsequent reputation as a painter." It should be ooserved, however, that he preferred the study of nature to that of the finest...

...well-directed study acquired, whilst he contemplated the best works of the best masters, that grace of thinking to which he was principally indebted for...this, he avoided all engagements for copying works of ait for the various travellers at that time in Rome, knowing that kind of employment, as he afterwards...

...be most conducive to his future excellence ; and, by his well-directed studies, acquired that grace of thinking, to which he was principally indebted for his subsequent reputation as a portrait-painter.'' The following is Sir Joshua's own account of his feelings on first beholding the...

...well-directed study acquired, while he contemplated the best works of the best masters, that grace of thinking, to which he was principally indebted...his subsequent reputation as a portrait painter." Much, however, as Reynolds in his lectures inculcates the necessity of constantly copying the great...

...he most conducive to his future excellence; and, by his well-directed studies, acquired that grace of thinking, to which he was principally indebted for his subsequent reputation as a painter." It should, however, be observed, that he preferred the study of nature to that of the finest...

...well-directed study acquired, while he contemplated the best works of the best masters, that grace of thinking, to which he was principally indebted...his subsequent reputation as a portrait painter." After an absence of nearly three years, he returned to England ; and, after visiting Devonshire for...