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The subsequent portion of the lecture was divided under 
four principal heads, viz. : (1) Portraits, (2) Genre Pictures, 
(3) Historical and Allegorical pictures, (4) Landscapes and 
Seascapes.' These sections of art were all lucidly treated by 
the lecturer and were illustrated by photographs of canvasses 
in the Salford Art Gallery, over which Mr. Mullen presides 
as Curator. Of course, there are in a colour picture many 
features and qualities which the camera cannot reproduce 
but apart from this the lecturer’s descriptions and criticisms 
of the numerous portraits and pictures were most valuable 
as to methods of criticism which should be adopted by the 
visitor to any art gallery. He certainly conveyed to his 
audience in a suggestive and practical manner the method 
of fulfilling the aspiration embodied in the title of the lecture 
— “ How to enjoy a good picture.” On the other hand he did 
not fail to point out that some have eyes yet see not, and that 
unless the spiritual and intellectual sides of man are to some 
degree sensitive to receive and develop the impressions which 
gain entrance through the physical eye, the man is blind 
and cannot see. What we find in a picture depends firstly 
upon what has been put into it, which, in its turn, depends 
upon the artist and the diversified qualities of his personal 
and professional character and abilities. The complemental 
understanding and appreciation of the artist’s work is excited 
only so far as corresponding emotions can be aroused in the 
man looking at the picture. To teach taste is inevitably 
to form character. 

