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Excerpt from Lectures on Painting: Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy
At the same time I am fully aware that the prae tical part of drawing can only be learned by real work and I am also inclined to believe that a knowledge of the old masters and their various schools is better acquired by frequent visits to galleries where their works can be seen, than by second-hand description from a lecture.
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