DAUBING (n.)

BARBOUILLERIE (fra.) · ENDUIT (fra.) · FÄRBEREI (deu.) · KLADDERIJ (nld.) · STÜMPE-ARBEIT (deu.)
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Friend,
            I have heard Painters blamed for Finishing their Pieces too much : How can that be ?
                        Traveller.
           
Very well : For an over Diligence in that kind, may come to make the Picture look too like a Picture, and loose the freedom of Nature. And it was in this, that Protogenes, who was, it may be, Superiour to Apelles, in every part of Painting ; besides, was nevertheless Outdone by him, because Protogenes could hardly ever give over Finishing a Piece. Whereas Apelles knew, when he had wrought so much as would answer the Eye of the Spectator, and preserve the Natural. This the Italians call, Working A la pittoresk, that is Boldly, and according to the first Incitation of a Painters Genius. But this requires a strong Judgment, or else it will appear to the Judicious, meer Dawbing.

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