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many excellent examples of buildings con- 

 nected with scenery, may be found in the 

 works of the principal French painters. In 

 that school, however, there is such a diver- 

 j^ity of styles, from extreme simplicity and 

 • severity, to as great licentiousness, that no 

 general character of their buildings can well 

 be given : but from that diversity much in- 

 struction may be drawn, both as to what 

 may be followed, and what should be avoid- 

 ed. The compositions of Le Sueur, L« 

 Brun, not to mention others of acknow- 

 ledged merit, are in high estimation ; and 

 they, like other historical painters, did not 

 neglect architecture. 



The Flemish school owes its principal re- 

 putation in history painting to its illustrious 

 head, Rubens ; for Vandyke, whose histori- 

 cal pictures gave such just cause of jealousy 

 to his master, forsook that higher branch o^ 

 the art, and is more generally known as a 

 porti-ait painter. There are others indeed, 

 such as Diepenbeck, Quellinus, de Vos,&c. 

 who painted dignified subjects on a large 

 scale, and whose works have no slight d£- 



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