Word: copier
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Discourses, Reynolds ranked historical painting as the highest art. He said that the mere copier of nature could do nothing good, and that the greatest artist is he who most appeals to the imagination. Reynolds did not follow in practice what he believed in theory. His happiest efforts are those in which he followed the precepts of Dutch and Venetian Schools...