text: " This truth and artlessness and natural action or repose of his figures only equalled in the English landscape by those of Gainsborough and Collins he probably owed in some measure to an observation of an early acquaintance-- Antiquity Smith as he was nicknamed by his brother artists who at the commencement of his studies had given him this judicious advice:--"Do not set about _inventing_ figures for a landscape _taken_ from nature; for you cannot remain an hour on any spot however solitary without the appearance of some living thing that will in all probability accord better with the scene and time of day than will any invention of your own