… January 17. — Company I had to dinner. — Sharpe, Fuseli, Daniell, Halls & Smirke. Much conversation abt. Art. — Vasari, Fuseli sd. was a useful writer as His books contain much information of circumstancesand of men, — but He had no enlarged view of the Capacities of the Art. —Fuseli had sent his lectures handsomely bound to Vincent at Paris to beby him presented to the Institute with a letter. Poggi [a picture-dealer] carries them. — Marchi told me to day that during the latter part of Sir Joshua Reynolds life, He used as a vehicle in painting the Macgilp only (mastic varnish & drying oil) which He …