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• 1 2015-12-09T23:59:26-08:00 Some Account vi 11 Some Account of the Life and Writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds plain 2017-01-15T23:08:21-08:00
  Under the tuition of Mr. Reynolds he was
   for some time instructed in the classicks;
  but at an early age his inclination for that
   art of which he afterwards became so iilus-
  trious a professor, began to display itself ;
  and his imperfect attempts 4 at delineation
  were encouraged by his father, who was
  himself fond of drawings, and had a small
  collection of anatomical and other prints.
  The young artist’s first essays were made in
   copying several little things done by two of
  his elder sisters, who had likewise a turn for