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The true significance of this achievement can be understood only by approaching it from the other side in time. During the hundred and fifty years since Copley left this country several different tech nics have been imported and discarded, and all of them have been strikingly at variance with his. Such temporary fashions and a long inadequate accumulation of facts concerning colonial condi tions have given rise to an undue degree of deprecation, sometimes of depreciation, in what has been written about the tradition and equipment of the earliest portraitists. A more accurate sense of his tory will first direct attention to the inevitability of a lag, both in time and in quality, to all colonial cultures; and this initial empha sis will permit a fairer conception of the relative greatness of what was attained in colonial North America.
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