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Italy has unquestionably produc’d the best Modern Painting, especially of the best Kinds, and posses’d it in a manner alone, when no other Nation in the World had it in any tolerable Degree ; That was Then consequently the great School of Painting. About a hundred Years ago there were a great many Excellent Painters in Flanders ; but when Van-Dyck came Hither, he brought Face-Painting to Us ; ever since which time (that is, for above fourscore Years) England has excell’d all the World in that great Branch of the Art, […] This may justly be esteem’d as a Complete, and the Best School for Face-Painting Now in the World ; and would probably have been yet Better, had Van Dyck’s Model been follow’d : But some Painters possibly finding themselves incapable of succeeding in His Way, and having found their Account in introducing a False Taste, Others have follow’d their Example, and forsaking the Study of Nature, have prostituted a Noble Art, chusing to exchange the honourable Character of good Painters for that sordid one of profess’d, mercenary Flatterers ;