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Article A FEW WORDS ON BENEFIT SOCIETIES. ← Page 4 of 9 →
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A Few Words On Benefit Societies.
such as be good and fine : good synople , good azure , good vcrdigreasc , good vermilion , or other good body colours , mixed and tempered with oil , and no brazil , indigo , or other of the last-mentioned sort and kind . " " It pleases their worships , " said tho Recorder . " Item . —That no good men of this Craft of the Painters shall entice away another man ' s apprentice or servant . " It leases their worshi
p ps . " Item .- —That no stranger , not being a Brother of this Guild , shall work at his trade until he hath made gree to my Lord the Mayor for his entry into the liberty of this city ; and hath caused himself to be put in frank-pledge , and hath become buxom ( i . e . submissive ) to our Guild , and paid two shillings towards the sustenance of our poor . "
The Masonic reader will be at no loss to recognise many common points between these simple laws of commercial morality ancl the constitutions of the greater Craft ; let us , hoivever , just take a glimpse at the influence of this Guild upon one of the noblest branches of art—I mean painting . Some people Avill stare Allien they hear Sir Francis assert ,
that " Avithout any disrespect to any other public body , he is bound to assert that this same company is undoubtedly the real , true , and genuine Royal Academy of England . " Be it remembered , that art , deriving its very life-springs from nature , must have the simplest of beginnings . The rudest imitations , Avhether of the human form , or of those objects ivhich most
frequently meet the eye in the intercourse of ordinary life , must , even when found on the rocks of the Wady-Mousa , or in the rudest decorations of an Otaheite canoe , be looked upon as sacred emblems of the infancy of that art , which is now the best and truest medium for preserving the memory of ivhat Ave once cherishedand creating new sources of deliht bits vivid
, g y , living portrayal of things long since gone from this earth . Despite the simplicity of the Painters' Guild , " albeit , " as Sir Francis pleasantly observes , " the main occupation of the Freemen at ,. the present day be that useful application of the art Avhich i __ usually called into action in company Avith the plasterers and the whiteivashers , " still ive find that her virgin
majesty Elizabeth , disgusted Avith the maudlin representations of her countenance by " coAvans" to the art , Avas pleased , like Alexander the Great , to grant an especial monopoly of the right of delineating her fair features to the Worshipful Company of Paper-stainers . A Kneller , a Reynolds , and many another since their time , have not disdained being enrolled among these conservatives of the privileges of art .
Art m those days ivas far more scarce than it is at present ; but the admiration it obtained sprang more naturally from the feelings of the people than it does at the present time . Sir Francis speaks ivith strong feelings on this subject : "NOAV , "
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A Few Words On Benefit Societies.
such as be good and fine : good synople , good azure , good vcrdigreasc , good vermilion , or other good body colours , mixed and tempered with oil , and no brazil , indigo , or other of the last-mentioned sort and kind . " " It pleases their worships , " said tho Recorder . " Item . —That no good men of this Craft of the Painters shall entice away another man ' s apprentice or servant . " It leases their worshi
p ps . " Item .- —That no stranger , not being a Brother of this Guild , shall work at his trade until he hath made gree to my Lord the Mayor for his entry into the liberty of this city ; and hath caused himself to be put in frank-pledge , and hath become buxom ( i . e . submissive ) to our Guild , and paid two shillings towards the sustenance of our poor . "
The Masonic reader will be at no loss to recognise many common points between these simple laws of commercial morality ancl the constitutions of the greater Craft ; let us , hoivever , just take a glimpse at the influence of this Guild upon one of the noblest branches of art—I mean painting . Some people Avill stare Allien they hear Sir Francis assert ,
that " Avithout any disrespect to any other public body , he is bound to assert that this same company is undoubtedly the real , true , and genuine Royal Academy of England . " Be it remembered , that art , deriving its very life-springs from nature , must have the simplest of beginnings . The rudest imitations , Avhether of the human form , or of those objects ivhich most
frequently meet the eye in the intercourse of ordinary life , must , even when found on the rocks of the Wady-Mousa , or in the rudest decorations of an Otaheite canoe , be looked upon as sacred emblems of the infancy of that art , which is now the best and truest medium for preserving the memory of ivhat Ave once cherishedand creating new sources of deliht bits vivid
, g y , living portrayal of things long since gone from this earth . Despite the simplicity of the Painters' Guild , " albeit , " as Sir Francis pleasantly observes , " the main occupation of the Freemen at ,. the present day be that useful application of the art Avhich i __ usually called into action in company Avith the plasterers and the whiteivashers , " still ive find that her virgin
majesty Elizabeth , disgusted Avith the maudlin representations of her countenance by " coAvans" to the art , Avas pleased , like Alexander the Great , to grant an especial monopoly of the right of delineating her fair features to the Worshipful Company of Paper-stainers . A Kneller , a Reynolds , and many another since their time , have not disdained being enrolled among these conservatives of the privileges of art .
Art m those days ivas far more scarce than it is at present ; but the admiration it obtained sprang more naturally from the feelings of the people than it does at the present time . Sir Francis speaks ivith strong feelings on this subject : "NOAV , "