He professes to have discovered secrets, and plainly _knows_ them, from his wonderful effects of colour on canvas--not merely in words.

His portrait of Miss Cushman is a miracle.

Gibson's famous painted Venus is very pretty--that's my criticism.

Yes, I will say besides that I have seldom, if ever, seen so indecent a statue.

The colouring with an approximation to flesh tints produces that effect, to my apprehension.