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… long stay in the British capital, the Swiss-born commentator Jean André Rouquet reported that many portrait painters in England also had, often adjacent to their painting room, a showroom or art gallery which he described in 1756 in his The Present State of the Arts in England : Every portrait painter in England has a room to show his pictures, separate from that in which he works. People who have nothing to do, make it one …
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