Excerpt from Epochs of the Arts: Including Hints on the Use and Progress of Painting and Sculpture in Great Britain The progress of the Arts of Design may be re garded in a similar view. The merits of the English School are diffused over the Continent: Painters and Sculptors have been courted to the most distant realms. The greatest historical work of Reynolds is in the Palace at Petersburgh. The Cupid and Psyche of Banks adorns the gardens of Czarsko - zelo. Engravings from West's Pictures have been eagerly purchased in France; and the candid Watelet, in his Dictionnaire des Arts, acknowledged our pretensions to fame. What country or language has not wel comed the Discourses delivered by Reynolds at our Academy! The Arts of Design, rooted in our soil, are fostered in foreign lands. England alone tran quilly contemplates their growth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.