The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (Volume 2) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809. Excerpt: ... A JOURNEY TO FLANDERS AND HOLLAND, IN THE YEAR MSCCLXXX1.-xxT Ostend, where Ave landed, Juhr 27, 1781, there are no pictures, and even Bruges affords but a scantv entertainment to a Painter: however, there are a few, which, though not of the Our author, accompanied by Fhi'ip Metcalfe, Esq. left London on Tuesday, July 14. 1781, went to Margate, and embarked there for Ostcnd; proceeded from thence to Ghent, Brussels, Antwerp; Dor:, the Hague, Lcyden, Amsterdam, Dusscldorp, Aix-la-chapelle, Liege; returned to Brussels again, from thence to Ostend; landed at Margate, and arrived in London Sunday, Sepf, 16. To Mr. Metcalfe he intended to have dedicated his account of this Tour, but he had only writ ten the following introductory paragraphs: "I send you, put together in as much order has first rank, may be worth the attention of a traveller who has time to spare. the little time I can spare from my business will permit, the Notes that I made abroad on the pictures that we saw together, I present them to you as properly your due; for if I had been accompanied by a person of less taste, or less politeness, they probably would not have been made. The pleasure that a mere dilettante derives from seeing the works of art, ceases when he has received the full effect of 'each performance; but the Painter has the means of amusing himself much longer, by investigating the principles on which the Artists wrought. To whichever of your good qualities I am to attribute your long and patient attendance, while I was employed in examining the various works which we saw, it merits my warmest acknowledgements. Nor is it an inconsiderable advantage to see such works in company with one, who has a general rectitude of taste, and is not a professor of the art. We are too apt to fo...