(Go to Summary of review of Modern Painters I, Artist's and Amateur's Magazine, December 1844.)
Artist's and Amateur's Magazine, December 1844, pp. 257-64.
That this work is possessed of more than ordinary merits may be fairly judged by the many public notices it has received, and by the variety of opinions it has called forth... It is, taking it with all its defects, by far the most intelligent, philosophic, and comprehensive work on the subject of Art that has issued from the press of the present day.