MEMOIR OF CAMPER. 



readers one other course of lectures, on a, subject 

 essentially different from any of the others to which 

 we have adverted, viz. On the Connexion between 

 the Science of Anatomy^ and the Arts of Drawing, 

 Painting and Sculpture. This subject began se- 

 riously to occupy our author's mind at an early epoch 

 of bis history, and continued to interest him till nearly 

 the close of his life. But he shall speak for himself. 

 " Painting, and whatever relates to the art, has been 

 my favourite amusement from my earliest years ; and 

 as the characteristic differences in men and animals 

 appeared to me one of the most interesting objects 

 in nature, I was disposed to pay them more than or- 

 dinary attention. 



" When I copied from the models of the ancient 

 Greeks, or placed before me the beautiful figures of 

 Michael-Angelo, and other celebrated masters of 

 later date, I observed a very great difference between 

 the faces of these artists and our own. At sixteen' 

 years of age I began to paint in oil, chiefly from the 

 Flemish masters; but as I was already captivated with 

 the superior dignity observable in the antique models, 

 the -style of these masters was not agreeable to me. 

 As I advanced in years my attention increased ; and 

 I imagined, that by a single glance, I could distinguish 

 antiques, and fix the very period in which they were 

 executed. 



" When I gave lectures in the Athenseum at Am- 

 sterdam, I was fully convinced that the ball of the 

 head, forming the cavity destined to contain the 



