Excerpt from Companion to the Bryan Gallery of Critical Art: Containing Critical Descriptions of the Pictures, and Biographical, Sketches of the Painters; With an Introductory Essay, and an Index<br><br>Cleaned his pictures himself; and of those which he thus laboriously brought to light, he has rejected six for every one which now hangs upon his walls. But, in spite of his unwillingness to appear in the char acter of an expert in old paintings, the author would not do himself justice, to say nothing of justice to the Collection and its proprietor, did he not state.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.