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PRINTED BY RICHARD AND JOHN E. TAYLOR,
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AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

It is the Author's wish to supply, by means of the present Hand-Book, a want which he himself sensibly experienced when he first endeavoured to acquire a general knowledge of the early history and progress of the Art of Painting. He found no short and easily-intelligible guide, pointing out to the unlearned the leading styles of Art, and serving as an introduction to the researches of our most recent writers. The book now submitted to the indulgence of the connoisseur first consisted only of notes compiled for private study; these were augmented and corrected by the inspection of the most important specimens of Art, and the whole was finally arranged with a due regard to chronological order. The work makes no pretension to originality; its sole object, as already stated, is, to form an introduction to the more valuable productions in the literature of Art. The Author only hopes he may have succeeded in fulfilling the most obvious requisites for this end.

His work is therefore strictly to be considered as a compilation. In treating his materials, he has en

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