Excerpt from The Art of Painting in Oil, Rendered Familiar to Every Capacity: Extracted From the Works of the Most Eminent Masters, of the Italian, Flemish, and English Schools (but Principally From Mr. Bardwell)All the masters, from Rembrandt, sunk gradually below each other in the art of colouring; therefore we may, with certainty, date the decline of that art from his time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.