Refers to the "candour" with which he expects the students to respond to the decisions of the membership in awarding premiums; there is only one entrant in the Life School class;
Lord Grosvenor leant
Rubens [
Juno and Ixion] to the painting school, leading to wonderful entrants in that category.
He reasons that the British School is now the first in Europe, particularly in terms of chiaro-scuro and colouring, but warns that good colouring is not enough; embarks on a critique of Rubens's
Ixion; he compares Rubens's treatment with that of an engraving by Caraglia[?], and uses, as a cautionary tale,
The Life of Joseph by
Andrea del Sarto, owned by
Lord Cowper, before bowing down to the genius of
Raphael in his treatment of
David and Bathsheba and other subjects in the Loggia.
He concludes with a rousing illustration of how Rubens is the sacred heir of Raphael.