These amateurs, however, are but few in number.

The Quakers have in general only a plain and useful education.

They are not brought up to admire such things, and they have therefore in general but little taste for the fine and masterly productions of the painters' art.
Neither would a person, in going through the houses of the Quakers, find any portraits either of themselves, or of any of their families, or ancestors, except, to the latter case, they had been taken before they became Quakers.

The first Quakers never had their portraits taken with their own knowledge and consent.

Considering themselves as poor and helpless creatures, and little better than dust and ashes, they had but a mean idea of their own images.