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SIR GODFREY KNELLER latterly painted more for profit than for praise,
and is said to have used some whimsical preparations in his colors,
which made them work fair and smoothly off, but not endure. A friend,
noticing it to him, said, What do you think posterity will say, Sir
Godfrey Kneller, when they see these pictures some years hence?--Say!
replied the artist: why, they'll say Sir Godfrey Kneller never
painted them!
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