The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 322, July 12, 1828

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The artist, however, cannot produce his tints from those simple colours entirely, but the advice once given to the writer, by a painter, was:—"Never fancy that many colours will effect your object; a few well chosen will better succeed, and be more easily managed; half-a-dozen would, for me, answer every purpose." The student is warned against gaudy colouring, which, if allowable in caricatures seen elsewhere, reminds one of pedlar's pictures.

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The old masters are well known to have made carefully many sketches of the subjects they designed for pictures, ere they dreamt of painting compositions that were to last for ever.

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Flamen, among the ancient Romans, was a priest or minister of sacrifice.

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"What boots it thee to call thyself a sun."