The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (With Additions) of Two ...
The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (With Additions) of Two ...
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
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The water-colour painters Digitized by VjOOQ IC LSOT. U.] XV. DIBTSXB^TIOK. ^9 Tkere k, however^ another pointy and a st^l more importuit one, bearing on this matter of purchase^ than the keeping down <^ prices to a rational standard. And that is, that yon pay yonr priceB into the hands of living men, and do not poor them into coffiiffi.
For observe that, as we arrange our payment of pictures at present, no artist's work is worth half its proper value while he is aUve. Hie moment he dies, hk pictures, if they are good, reaoh douUe their former value ; but that rise of price represents umply a profit made by the inteUigent dealer or purchaser on his past purchases. So that the real &ct8 of the matter are, that the Bri- tish public, spending a certain sum annually in art, determines that, of every thousand it pays, only five hundred shall go to the painter, or shall be at all concerned in the produclion oi art ; and that the other five hundred ^lall be paid merely as a testimonial to the intelligent dealer, who knew what to buy.
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