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Rubens excelled in reprefenting fury, drunken- 
nefs, and other exceifes. He and Van Dyke have 
left us mailer-pieces in the higheft ftyle. 
Raphael painted, in a Hill more majellic manner, 
both divine and noble figures, with thought, image, 
and fentiment inimitable. — Guido’s heads are love- 
ly, correal, and noble. 
Salvator Rofa needs only to be named in the firll 
rank of Italian painters. 
Pouffin, Le Sueur, and Le Brun, did honour to 
France. Others, from Kneller to Reynolds, gain- 
ed fame and riches in England. 
Teniers ftill Hands foremoft in repute, for having 
reprefented national humour, innocent fports, and 
gambols. The Flemifh fchool, likewife, produced 
Gerard Dow, who drew rogues as they are, and 
true pictures of low life. 
Holbein excelled them in expreffing candour and 
fimplicity. Hogarth followed him in the fame line 
with equal or greater fuccefs. His Harlot's Pro- 
grefs, and March of the Guards^ prove him to 
have been a Phyfiognomifl, who did not omit a 
fingle trait that expreffed vulgarity, ridicule, and 
the horrors of diffipation. 
For harmony, compofure, and ferenity, Mengs, 
his wife, and children, will be remembered fo lone- 
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as their piftures, drawn by him for celellial beings, 
exift as ornaments to the Vatican. 
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