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Mola and Feti among the Italian, and JR.embraut 

 among the Dutch masters ! 



That their style of colouring is not congenial 

 to beauty in its strict sense, we have Sir Joshua's 

 authority : we have likewise his authority, that it 

 is not suited to grandeur, when compared with 

 the unbroken colours of the Roman and Florentine 

 schools, or the solemn hue of the Bolognian ;* 

 but that it must be suited to some character in 

 nature, and of no mean or obscure kind, it is 

 impossible to doubt. 



• Discourse IV. p. V!k 



