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… Sutable to his meritt his face being no Agreable prospect for fine Ladys to see those scars were rather a motive of compassion than to inspire their graces & charmes.’ 3 For obvious reasons, the allure which the ‘alternative’ studio, … painting-room’, Richardson stipulated, ‘must be like Eden before the fall, like Arcadia; no joyless, turbulent passions must enter there’ (100). In his study of Joshua Reynolds as a ‘painter in society’, Richard Wendorf has pointed …
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