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and shadow have been produced, with the excep- 
tion, however, of Rembrandfs method, and which 
the 
author 
of 
these 
sketches ventures 
to 
suggest 
was attained, 
in 
general, 
observing 
the 
effect 
of 
sunshine 
passing 
through 
chinks 
into 
3 
dark 
But the American Artist was as yet unac- 
quainted 
with 
any 
of 
them, 
and 
had 
HO 
other 
guides to 
the 
essential 
principles 
of 
his 
aft: 
but 
the delicacy of his sight, and that ingenious obser- 
vation of Nature to which allusion has been already 
so often made. 
VII. 
The picture of the Student, or man read- 
-light, 
ing by candle- 
WBS 
by a Mr. Myers, 
bought 
who: 
in 
the 
revolution, 
conti n ued 
to 
adhere 
to 
the 
English 
(331189. 
The 
same 
gentleman 
also 
bought 
a copy which 
WVest made about the same 
time of Belisarius, from the engraving by Strange, 
of 
Salvator 
Rosa's 
painting. 
It 
is 
not 
known 
but when 
what has now become of these pictures; 
the Artist long afterwards saw the original of Sal- 
vator 
Rosa, 
he 
VV3.S 
gratified 
to 
observe 
that 
he 
had 
instinctively 
coloured 
his 
c0PY 
almost 
faithfully as 
it 
if 
had 
been 
painted from the pic- 
ture instead of 
the engraving. 
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