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judge from this specimen, no less so in 

 those that are painted. You know I have 

 a passion for horses, and I am delighted to 

 see them, according to my notions, so fine- 

 ly represented." 



" Rubens/' said Mr. Howard, " had the 

 same passion ; and as he kept a number of 

 horses, which, probably, were very beau- 

 tiful, and in high order, he painted them 

 truly after nature. I do not wonder at 

 your being struck with that horse, and 

 with the effect of his white main ; nothing 

 can be more brilliant than the touches of 

 light upon it, and upon the foam on his 

 mouth : yet you see those touches, and 

 the whole of that mass of white, are in 

 perfect harmony with the rest of the pic- 

 ture. But you must not neglect that other 

 large picture, which makes a companion to 

 this: it, is.' by Paul Veronese, a painter of 

 the. Venetian school, from whom Rubens 

 caught that general air you so justly ad- 

 mi re 



" There is indeed," said Mr. Seymour, 

 " a most imposing air of splendour and 



