The second of two extracts from the conversation of James Northcote. RA with William Hazlitt selected and introduced by Derek Parker with Paul Rogers i as James Northcote
I should say that Vandyke's portraits are like pictures, Sir Joshua's like the reflection in a looking-glass, and Titian's like the real people ... when Alexander Day took leave of some fine portraits of Titian's that hung in a dark corner of a gallery in Naples, he said " Ah! he was a fine old mouser! ".'
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