THE KNOWLEDGE AND RESTORATION

OF

OLD PAINTINGS;

THE MODES OF JUDGING BETWEEN

COPIES AND ORIGINALS;

ETC., ETC.

THE

KNOWLEDGE AND RESTORATION

OF

OLD PAINTINGS:

THE MODES OF JUDGING BETWEEN

COPIES AND ORIGINALS:

AND

A BRIEF LIFE OF THE PRINCIPAL MASTERS IN THE

DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF PAINTING.

BY T. H. FIELDING,

PROFESSOR OF PERSPECTIVE AND PAINTING IN WATER COLOURS,
TO THE SENIOR CLASSES AT THE

HON. E. I. COMPANY'S MILITARY COLLEGE;

AUTHOR OF "THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PAINTING IN OIL AND
WATER COLOURS;" "A SYNOPSIS OF PERSPECTIVE," ETC.

LONDON:

ACKERMANN AND CO., 96, STRAND.

INTRODUCTION.

AMONG the numerous and useful works published for the benefit of travellers, we have not yet found a compendium of the subjects treated on in the following pages, of a suitable arrangement and size for a corner in the traveller's portmanteau.

We need not discuss the advantage or satisfaction most persons receive in viewing the magnificent collections of paintings which are scattered over Europe, and we hope the amateur will find sufficient in our small work to enable him better to appreciate the different styles of the various schools of painting that he will meet with in most of the European galleries; and for those who make the study of the old