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    ing which they pertinaciou sly adhere . It is needless to say to them , this or that painter , though wanting in the quality thus sought after , has powers altogether greater in a

    different walk ; it is needless to bring to mind the age or country of such painter ; with a tacit acknowledgment of such being the case they pas $ on to their favourites . Those

    qualities most admired by Englishmen , and , consequently , most to be found in English pictures , are those least to be met with in the works of

    the masters , which may assist in accounting for the difficulty we have mentioned , and also in some measure for the want of any public collection which might be efficient in reducing

    it . The grand cause , however , of the existence of such a difficulty is ignorance of the history of art . People require to be told why they should respect works which , on the

    principles whereby a newly painted picture should be judged , would not be at all worthy of admiration , or rather , would be quite incapable of being referred to such standard .

    , The effect produced by visiting the gallery of the Louvre for the first time 5 on one even well qualified in the technical paH of art , shows the truth of this . He feels himself quite at sea : the great architypes which he had a right to expect would have read him a clear lesson * ate oiily presented to him to increase the number

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    of his doubts ; the different schools seem to oppose one another ' s principles , and that style which he has been accustomed to consider the best

    appears to him to be possessed in the greatest degree by very inferior names . AH this he scarcely tries to reconcile ; he gives up the matter as a

    wilderment to be avoided , and leaving Roman pictures to the usual phrases bestowed on such , declares candidly that he thinks Rembrandt to have

    been the greatest man that ever lived . A few ideas connected with the progress of art , and its history as a part of the intellectual state of the

    country which produced its first efforts , would go far to be a clue in the labyrinth ; and it may be said no gallery can better inculcate these than that of the Louvre . The annual exhibition of the works

    of living artists is the cause of that of the old masters being shut for a certain period of the year . This year it was

    somewhat later m again opening ; being shut during the celebration ( for the seventh and last time ) of the glorious Three Days . The anniversary of those national honours indeed

    seemed this season to be passed over in such a manner as would make them less regretted when discontinued . The opening of the St Germain railroad , which had been promised , and which w&s looked to with much expectation by the Parisians * did not take place till a fortnight

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    2 © 6 Hints towards a right Appreciation of Pictures .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/41/