.
The third Artist that I looked over was
Fantasque
, dressed like a Venetian Scaramouch. He had an excellent Hand at a
Chimera
, and dealt very much in Distortions and Grimaces: He would sometimes affright himself with the Phantoms that flowed from his Pencil. In short, the most elaborate of his Pieces was at best but a terrifying Dream; and one could say nothing more of his finest Figures, than that they were agreeable Monsters.
The fourth Person I examined was very remarkable for his hasty Hand, which left his Pictures so unfinished, that the Beauty in the Picture (which was designed to continue as a monument of it to Posterity) faded sooner than in the Person after whom it was drawn.
made so much haste to dispatch his Business, that he neither gave himself time to clean his Pencils,
nor