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and efpecially the dappled kind, which 

 indeed I had not mentioned, but of which 

 you, like a generous adverfary, have given 

 me the advantage. 



Claude, who often introduced deer into 

 his pictures, avoided thofe of the mottled 

 kind, and made his of one uniform, quiet 

 tint: he would equally have avoided the 

 Nova Scotia breed of fheep, and all pied 

 animals ; for no painter was more atten- 

 tive to general harmony. Berchem, who 

 aimed at great brilliancy, both in touch 

 and colour, painted cattle with their vari- 

 ous marks ; and his pictures (though ex- 

 cellent in other refpecls) are remarkable 

 for their fpottinefs, and the want of that 

 fullnefs of form and repofe, for which 

 Claude's are fo diftinguifhed. 



Though you have not directly, and 

 in your own name renounced the pictu- 

 refque, yet no man who did not wifti it 



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