An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists – in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.


The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight (ed. 1797)


An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists –...

An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists –...

An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists –...

An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists –...