The Peruvians have great natural talents for painting and sculpture.
They generally produce striking likenesses, but being uninstructed in
the principles of these arts, their pictures have no other merit. There
is, however, a female figure, done in 1711, by a native of Quito, which
is considered as one of the finest paintings in a very good collection
belonging to Mynheer Vandermarlin, of Brussels.

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ORATORIOS.


The first oratorio performed in London, was at the Lincoln's Inn Fields
Theatre, in 1732. On June 10, in the same year, the serenata of _Acis
and Galatea_ was performed at the Italian Opera House, in English, by
Italian performers, with scenery representing a rural prospect, with
rocks, groves, fountains, and grottoes; amongst which were disposed a
chorus of nymphs and shepherds, with dresses and "every other decoration
suited to the subject."--_Companion to the Theatres_.

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