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to the period under review. Besides a number of 

 others who might be mentioned, the merits oF Law- 

 rence, Ramsay, Gainsborough, Northcofe, 

 Opie, Beechey and Barry, of Great-Britain; of 

 Greuze, of France; and of Stuart,^ of the 

 United States, entitle them to the highest praise. 



Tiiat mode of delineating the human counte- 

 nance called Mlnhiliii'c painting, though practised 

 prior to the age under consideration, yet may be 

 said to have gained a prevalence, and attained a 

 degree of excellence, during that age, v.diich were 

 altogether unknown in any former period. 



In Allegorical painting, Angelica Kauffman, 

 a distinguished genius of Germany, now residing 

 at Rome, was perhaps never exceeded. In that 

 vigorous imagination which enables an artist, as it 

 were, to embody and depict metaphysical ideas, 

 jMr. FusELi has displayed unrivalled talents. In 

 Landscape^ Gainsborough, Wilson, Smith, Tur- 

 ner, and several others, have attained high dis- 

 tinction in Great-Britain; as have also Vernet 

 and Valenciens, of France; Ommagank, of Ant^ 

 werp, and several others in different parts of Eu- 

 rope. In depicting Cattle, and various kinds of 



f Mr. Gilbert Stuart, the celebrated portrait painter, Is a native of 

 the State of Rhode-Island. He discovered, early in life, a taste for paint- 

 ing. This was encouraged by a friend of the family, who had himself con- 

 siderable skill in the same art, and who took young Stuart with him to 

 Great-Britain, where he spent several years before he reached the age of 

 machood. On returning to his native country, and discovering a growing 

 fondness for the pencil, he was patronized by Mr. Joseph Anthony, a 

 respectable merchant of Rhode-Island, afterwards of Philadelphia, by 

 whom he was again sent to England, and placed under the tuition of Mr. 

 West, where he made great proficiency, and soon became distinguii^hed as 

 a portrait painter. The high reputation which he has since gained in this 

 branch of the art, is generally known, both in Great-Britain and America. 

 A late satirical, and in many respects, very exceptionable writer, ^pc■aking 

 of this gentleman, expresses himself in the following terms : " I do net 

 know any living artist to whom I would so eagerly sit, for an immediate 

 and faithful resemblance, as to G. Stuart, as, I believe, he sees his object, 

 and the infinity of tints constituting that object, with more perspicuity than 

 any other existing portrait paiiiter." See Antuony PA«(^utN's Rcyal 



