A Manual of Oil Painting (Classic Reprint)

Stack Annex 5A MANUAL OF OIL PAINTING. PRACTICE. THE art of painting in oils is a very difficult one, and not the least of its difficulties consists in the great uncertainty that exists as to the proper methods to be pursued. As a rule the great painters have been too much occupied with their painting to explain to the world how their effects have been produced. I ndeed, it would seem that they have not always known themselves ;for when they have theorised upon the subject their theories have been often quite irrecorr- cilable with their practice. Fortunately, they have generally had pupils who have carried on the tradition of their masters work, and on the Continent this excellent system is still in force at the present day, for most of the great foreign painters think it their duty to give up a certain amount of their time to teaching, without any other reward than the additional fame conferred on them by the successes of their pupils. For some reason or other this practice is almost unknown in England.
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