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3 unusual facts about Hugh Blair


Hugh Blair

Lectures too did not maintain its popularity as theorists such as Whatley and Spencer, drawing on Blair's theories, dominated the domain of composition theory.

A portrait of Blair's Spanish translator, José Luis Munárriz, painted in 1815 by Goya, hangs in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid.

The Lectures were predominantly popular in the United States, with colleges such as Yale and Harvard implementing Blair's theories.


William Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne

Among his intimate friends were Henry Mackenzie, Robert Cullen, William Craig, Hugh Blair, Erskine and Alexander Abercromby.


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