The best manner of Painting, is that which imitates the best, and makes the Picture, bear the greatest Resemblance to the natural Object, it represents. This matching the Painting with the Life, will do but little Credit, to a certain Set of Painters, who seem to aim at reforming the Works of Nature; and who, in Painting (for instance) a Child of a Year old, whose Head in reality is one fifth part of its Height, are so over scrupulous, as only to make it an eighth Part; and the breadth of his Shoulders, which naturally is equal to the height of its Head, is stretch'd by these Gentlemen, to double that Measure; thus reducing the Proportions of an Infant, to those of a grown Man. These People are so hardened and confirm'd in their Error, by practising, and seeing it practised so often, that they persuade themselves that Nature, herself, must be in the wrong; or at least, that those who imitate her must be so, for differing from them.