Excerpt from The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds to Which Is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author, Vol. 1 of 2: With Remarks on His Professional Character, Illustrative of His Principles and Practice
It appeared to me, that former Lives of Sir Joshua were not well adapted to the use of students; and, in availing myself of the materials which other writers have afforded me, I have endeavoured to give a more artist-like character to that which I submit to your inspection, and have added new matter connected with painting, whenever an opportunity of introducing it presented itself.
Had I been able to confine myself more exclusively to the subject of art, I should, perhaps, have succeeded better in giving to my work the character which I intended it to assume; but the incidents of Reynolds's life, connected as they are with the biography of other celebrated characters of his time, and interesting as they have hitherto been considered, as forming part of the history of an individual with whom all that is in any way associated is matter of comparative importance, must always have a claim to notoriety as objects of public inquiry and solicitude; and I should not have been justified in omitting them, could I even have persuaded myself to do so.
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