“Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.” FirstsMayLittlesStillsPrinciplesStudyPaintingPainterColourGrounded Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait