The Prospects of Art in the United States: An Address Before the Artists Fund Society of Philadelphia, at the Opening of Their Exhibition, May, 1840 (Classic Reprint)

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The fact, that, as associated Artists, you are con scious of sufficient strength to assume the entire management of your own interests, is, in itself, cheer ing. For if it be true, that since The Painters of Siena were chartered in 1355, under those admi rable statutes for the government of the profession which, for truth and clearness, have never been sur passed, Artists have proved themselves to be the best judges of what the honour of the Arts may demand, it should also be remembered, that in their earlier infancy, they have always needed and sought kindly nurture from those who have the taste to admire, and the means to reward, what they have not the happy genius to execute.

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