The art of painting according to the theory and practise of the best Italian, French, and Germane masters. Treating of the antiquity of painting. The reputation it always had. The characters of several masters. Proportion. Action and passion. The effects of light. Perspective. Draught. Colouring. Ordonnance. Far more compleat and compendious then hath yet been publisht by any, antient or modern. The second edition. By M.S. gent.

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Title: The art of painting according to the theory and practise of the best Italian, French, and Germane masters. Treating of the antiquity of painting. The reputation it always had. The characters of several masters. Proportion. Action and passion. The effects of light. Perspective. Draught. Colouring. Ordonnance. Far more compleat and compendious then hath yet been publisht by any, antient or modern. The second edition. By M.S. gent.
Author: [Smith, Marshall, fl. 1693].
Publication: London :: printed by M.B. for the author, and are to be sold by R. Bently, in Russel-street, Covent-Garden, and J. Hancock, in Castle Ally by the Royal-Exchange. Price 2s. 6d.,; 1693.
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Subject terms: Painting -- Technique -- Early works to 1800.
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To the most Ingenious and Accomplish'd Gentleman The Author of the following Treatise.

NO more let Aegypt Hieroglyphicks boast
Too Aenigmatical, our Happ'er Coast
You by a more improv'd way have taught,
T'express each Vice, each Virtue, Passion, Thought.
You teach Mute Logick with far more Success
Then all the Schools, and in a Loftier Dress;
Who would not Emulate to be your Story;
If such your Pen's, then what's your Pencel's Glory?

Long in the Curst, Obscure Retreat of Night
This Gem hath lay'n (though with a Glimm'ring Light)
Wanting a well Experienc'd Hand, to show
What wondrous Pleasures from the Pencel Flow:
Tell you in Pitty to the Thirst of Man,
Each Notion weigh, and ev'ry Beauty Scan:
At length the Charming Phaenix Hatch'd appears,
Though but few months, the Work of many years.

T. H. Oxon.