Excerpt from The Painter and Varnisher's Guide, or a Treatise, Both in Theory and Practice, on the Art of Making and Applying Varnishes: On the Different Kinds of Painting; And on the Method of Preparing Colours Both Simple and Compound

But were Apelles, Pmtogenes, and Aristides, who sue needed to the glory of these early painters, and who in some things even surpassed them, better acquainted with the art of preparing colours, and the means of giving them 111c body and more' solidity i - If the preservation of the colour ing was owing to a varnish, or to substances capable of making a varnish, 'did they mix them, as some modern painters do, with the colouring parts, even when distributed on the palette P - or did they reserve them to be applied -to the composition after it was finished?

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