THE
WORK S

OF

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, KNIGHT ;

LATE PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY:

CONTAINING
HIS DISCOURSES, IDLERS,
A JOURNEY TO FLANDERS AND HOLLAND,
AND HIS COMMENTARY ON DU FRESNOY'S ART OF

PAINTING;

PRINTED FROM HIS REVISED COPIES,

(WITH HIS LAST CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS)

IN THREE VOLUMES.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED
AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE

AUTHOR,

BY EDMOND MALONE, ESQ.

ONE OF HIS EXECUTORS.
THE THIRD EDITION CORRECTED.

-QUASI NON EA PRÆCIPIAM ALIIS, QUÆ MIHI IPSI DESUNT. CICERO.

VOLUME THE THIRD.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND,

By H. Baldwin and Son, New Bridge-Street.

CONTENTS
OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

The Art of Painting, by C. A. Dufresnoy, translated

into English Verse by the Rev. William Mason,

Page 1

Annotations on Du Fresnoy's Poem ........ p. 93

Du Fresnoy’s Sentiments on the principal Painters of

the two last ages ................... p. 197

Parallel between Poetry and Painting .....p. 215

Chronological List of Painters, with short characters,

and an account of their respective births and deaths,

p. 291

Alphabetical List of Painters, referring to the former,

p. 325

General Index ....................... p. 339

VOL. III.