text:  Documents and testimonies are sufficient to establish as much entire worth as falls to the lot and adornment of the best; and to bring this conviction that for the justice candour liberality kindness and generosity which he showed in his dealings with all even his professional rivals if he had not had the extraordinary merit of being the greatest British painter he deserved and will deserve the respect of mankind; and to have had his many and great virtues recorded in a far other manner than in that among the "Lives of the British Painters