button to main menu  Eleventh Exhibition, p.14
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Accuracy I have always considered as a necessary ingredient to be possessed by an artist, and I consider character equally necessary, and the time seems fast approaching when every lover of the arts will think the same. - There is no method by which a man can learn to discriminate between what is beautified and what is not beautified in nature, but by attentively studying nature; but this is not done by making fifty sketches in a day, for though such practise should be continued for years, such a sketcher would retreat from his employment as ignorant as he approached it, but the slight sketches of those who have been previously initiated into all the intricacies of nature are truly fascinating, and such only of the slight kind, can with propriety, be deemed masterly.
From my cradle I have always loved the arts, but had never the opportunity of studying them seriously, till I came to live in Westmorland; when I was a drawing master in Manchester, I was constantly on the look out for etchings to assist me in my teaching, but every thing I saw of the land-
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