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" That
he
must
'now
acknowledge
that
Mengs
could
colour
as well
21S
draw is
he could
Dance
Oonfessed that he thought the picture much better
Coloured than those usually painted by Mengs, but
added that he did not think the drawing either
so firm
or so good
the
usual
style
that Ar-
of
tist.
This
remark
occasioned
SOITIE
debate,
in
which Jenkins, attributing the strictures of Dance
to
SOIIIE
prejudice which
he
had
early conceived
against Mengs, drew the company around sto
take a part in the discussion. Mr. Crespigno seiz-
ing the proper moment in their conversation to
produce
the
effect intended,
said to Jenkinsthat
he
W38
mistaken,
and
that
Dance
W38
in
the
right, for, in truth, the picture was not painted by
Mengs; By whom then, vociferated every one,
" for there is no other painter now in Rome capable
of
executing
aHY
thing
SO
g00d P19
BY
that
y0ung gentleman there," said Mr. Crespigm-5,
turning to West. At once all eyes were bent
fowards him, and the Italians, in their way, ran
and embraced
him.
best judges
Thus did the
at
Once, by this picture, acknowledge him as only
Second int the executive department of the art to
the first painter then in Rome. Mengs himself,von