text:  Would that there were no counteracting circumstances which still keep it from reaching its proper rank! Some there are which materially degrade it amongst which is the attempt to force patronage; the whole system of Art Unions and of Schools of Design the "in forma pauperis" petitioning and advertising and the rearing innumerable artists ill-educated in all but drawing and mere degrading still the binding art as it were apprenticed to manufacture in such Schools of Design; connecting in more than idea the drawer of patterns with the painter of pictures