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Updated: May 7, 2025
As an instance, I remember that one afternoon I was reading The Provoked Husband with the highest relish, with a green woody landscape of Ruysdael or Hobbima just before me, at which I looked off the book now and then, and wondered what there could be in that sort of work to satisfy or delight the mind at the same time asking myself, as a speculative question, whether I should ever feel an interest in it like what I took in reading Vanbrugh and Cibber?
It does me good, as I walk towards the street of my daily avocation, on some fine May morning, to meet him marching in a quite opposite direction, with a jolly handsome presence, and shining sanguine face, that indicates some purchase in his eye a Claude or a Hobbima for much of his enviable leisure is consumed at Christie's, and Phillips's or where not, to pick up pictures, and such gauds.
Thus an admirer of Teniers or Hobbima might think little of the pastoral sketches of Pope or Goldsmith; even Thompson describes not so much the naked object as what he sees in his mind's eye, surrounded and glowing with the mild, bland, genial vapours of his brain: but the adept in Dutch interiors, hovels, and pig-styes must find in Mr. Crabbe a man after his own heart.
Ruskin makes strong objection to the word 'niggling. 'I should be glad if it were entirely banished from service and record. The only essential question about drawing is whether it be right or wrong; that it be small or large, swift or slow, is a matter of convenience only. He reserves to himself, however, the right to apply the 'ugly word' to Hobbima.
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