Volltext: The life, studies and works of Benjamin West, Esq. president of The Royal Academy of London

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ti'ons 
of 
Venice, 
he 
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not 
perfectly 
satisfied 
with its soundness as a rule, till many years after 
his arrival in London, and many unsuccessful 
experiments. 
Having 
completed 
his 
tour 
to 
the 
most 
Celebrated repositories of art in Italy, and enriched 
his mind, and improved his taste, by the peru- 
sal 
rather 
than 
the imitation of 
their best pieces, 
he 
returned 
to 
Rome, 
and 
aPP1ied 
himself 
to 
minute 
and 
assiduous 
study 
of 
the 
great 
ments 
of 
that 
capital, 
directing 
his 
principal 
of Raphael, and improving 
attention to the works 
his 
knowledge 
of 
the 
antient 
costume 
by 
the 
study 
of 
Cameos, 
which 
he 
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assisted 
by 
the author of 
Mr. Wilcox, 
Roman Conversa- 
the 
tions,-to whom he had been introduced -by Mr. 
Robinson, at Mr. Crespi_gne"s, on the occasion of 
of the Portrait,-a man of singular 
the exhibition 
Httainments in learning, and of a serene and com- 
Posed dignity of mind and 
that rendered 
manners 
more remarkable to 
him 
strangers 
than 
EVCTI 
his 
great classical knowledge. 
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