Excerpt from How to Paint Complete Compendium of the Art, Designed for the Use of the Tradesman, Mechanic, Merchant, and Farmer, and to Guide the Professional Painter

If the practical workman is engaged upon this class of work, each stroke of his pencil is accurately made, each color or shade is applied or blended properly, to produce the desired result and any effort at assistance by an inexperienced hand would retard and injure rather than improve the work. So it is plainly seen that an apprentice cannot jump into the perfection necessary to perform this work, and, consequently, is not a desirable auxiliary to the artist.

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