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AUG 25 1913
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R. REPTON'S Letter to Mr. PRICE
Mr. PRICE's reason for answering Mr. REPTON'S Letter so
much in detail
As Mr. R. agrees with him in the general principles of im-
provement, the difference between them is with regard to
the propriety or possibility of reducing them to practice
-the trial as yet has never fairly been made
Mr. R.'s principal aim throughout his Letter, is to shew, that
by a study of painting, only wild ideas are acquired. Such
a general notion not authorised by the works of painters-
exemplified in those of Claude and N. Pouffin
In giving the title of "The New System of Improvement, by
Neglect and Accident," Mr. R. has tried to ridicule his
own practice
The utility of that practice and method of study difcuffed-
illustrated by a passage from Helvetius
Not attended to by Mr. Brown, and one chief cause of his
defects. It is a method of study very generally pursued by
painters in their study of nature, but not by improvers
Mr. R. however had pursued it according to his own account 41
Mr. P. had taken the liberty of recommending, in addition
to it, the study of the higher artists; but is glad to hear
Mr. R. had anticipated his advice, and that he acknow-
ledges it to be a study essential to the profeffion
In their party down the Wye, Mr. R. treated lighty the idea
of taking hints from a natural river, towards forming an arti-
ficial one. He had found by practical experience, that there
is less affinity between painting and gardening, than his en-
thusiasm for the picturesque made him originally fancy
The principal aim of Mr. R. is to weaken that affinity; but
his own method of proceeding, proves the closeness of it-
that method discussed, and compared with the painter's - 46