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he has fkimmed, (if you will allow the phrafe) and extra&ed 

 from their feveral beauties many general maxims and infallible 

 rules which he always followed, and by which he has acqui- 

 red in his works a greater facility than that of Titian ; more 

 of purity, truth, and fcience than Paulo Veroncfe ; and more 

 of majefty, repofe, and moderation than Tintoret. To con- 

 clude; his manner is fo folid, fo knowing, and fo ready, that 

 it may feem this rare accomplished genius was fent from hea- 

 ven to inflrud: mankind in the Art of Painting. 



His School was full of admirable Difciples ; amongft whom' 

 VANDYKE was he who belt comprehended all the rules and 

 general maxims of his Matter; and who has even excelled 

 him in the delicacy of his carnations, and in his cabinet-pieces; 

 but his tafte, in the defigning part, was nothing better than 

 that of Rubens. 



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