. Handbook of young artists and amateurs in oilpainting, being chiefly a condensed compilation from the celebrated manual of Bouvier ... appended a new explanatory and critical vocabulary . se have well been done than as accident has mademe find it my delight to do it. You must know,says the old Cennino—as Mrs. Merrifield translateshim, that painting pictures is the proper employ-ment of a gentleman; and that with velvet on hisback he may paint what he pleases : and to be a gentleman, or (as we should say, in modern times,in the phrase of Cennino), with broadcloth on his bach,the painter shoul
. Handbook of young artists and amateurs in oilpainting, being chiefly a condensed compilation from the celebrated manual of Bouvier ... appended a new explanatory and critical vocabulary . se have well been done than as accident has mademe find it my delight to do it. You must know,says the old Cennino—as Mrs. Merrifield translateshim, that painting pictures is the proper employ-ment of a gentleman; and that with velvet on hisback he may paint what he pleases : and to be a gentleman, or (as we should say, in modern times,in the phrase of Cennino), with broadcloth on his bach,the painter should not only use the language of hisart with propriety and understanding, but with ele-gance. Finally, the Index, at the close of the treatise, isone of those things that I consider necessary in allsuch books as the present. Its uses need no expla-nation ; nor will the young artist be slow in availinghimself of such an assistance. First, however, letthe book be well gone through, not once, but twice,adding thereto the Dictionary just mentioned, whichcontains much useful information on some of themost important and best established principles of tiieart. A. A. New York, Jlpril, ADDRESS TO THE YOUNG ARTIST Imagine not that the profession of a painter is thatof an idler: on the contrary, it is of all occupations theone perhaps that requires most activity; for one is con-stantly engaged, if not with the art itself, at least with itsmaterials. All true artists will tell you, that if the art of paint-ing were not in itself replete with charms, as in fact it isfor all those who practise it with love, it would be a verypainful pursuit, so many precautions are there to be taken,so many things to be calculated, foreseen, and prepared,independently of the considerable time which must beconsecrated to it for the art itself, if one would makeprogress. Thus says the excellent Genevan, whom I shall so oftenpresent to your respect and affection ; and it is but simpletruth. How indeed sh
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