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I name Wovermans. We hare been used 

 to think of him chiefly as a painter of ani- 

 mals, and particularly horses, in which line 

 lie so eminently excelled ; and when we 

 consider the high finishing of his pictures, 

 the extreme delicacy of his touch, and the 

 manner in which he blended his colours, so 

 as oftentimes to give too smooth an appear- 

 ance to the general surface, it is difficult to 

 imagine, that he, of all painters, should most 

 diligently have searched for every broken 

 and irregular form. Yet so it is, and in a 

 degree that no one will conceive, who has 

 not looked at his pictures and prints with 

 that impression : and whoever wishes to 

 gain an idea of the varieties of picturesque 

 forms, in the outs ides of buildings (from 

 which, however, the grand and beautiful 

 remains of antiquity are excluded) will find 

 that he has assembled them together in his 

 works with all the passion of a collector of 

 such objects, and all the skill of a painter 

 in combining them with each other. In 

 this, as I conceive, lies a very principal dif- 

 ference between these two artists in respect 



