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Sunday
05Jul2009

Henry Fielding's idea of a good portrait

DateSunday, July 5, 2009 at 09:40PM

"It hath been thought a vast commendation of a painter to say his figures seem to breathe, but surely it is a much greater and nobler applause that they appear to think." Fielding, 1741

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