Why? I mean, it would have been miraculous a generation or two earlier, before these people had a chance to spend time in Britain and see actual professional oil painting. Copley´s genius was needed to "reinvent" the art on his own. British training produced decent portraitists.
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Date: 2019-04-08 07:55 pm (UTC)