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ing caricatures—because a very stupid person
can succeed in it; because it is a species of
lying, for.it violates the truth and inculcates
falsehood ; because it cultivates bad habits
in him who executes and him who sees the
false picture ; and because it wounds the feel-
ings of the subject of the caricature, and does
him as gross injustice as if you robbed him
of his money ; and .

because it stirs up
enmity and strife in
society.

The true art of the
painter is to seize
upon the agreeable
expression of the
person he would
represent, and to portray it so that all will
know it at once as a likeness. The art of
doing this is a noble art, and it requires ability
and genius to excel in it. %

Now, these remarks may be fairly ap-
plied to moral painting: it is easy, in
speaking of others, to draw caricatures of
them and to make them seem ridiculous. I
am afraid, it is because the thing is so easy

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