My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature – the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry – painting or anything else… my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones – perhaps the scarifies I make for ‘lightness’ and ‘brightness’ is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.
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