Art Theory - Classification Of Features ( Originally Published
1869 ) If, however, the importance of duly and correctly
developing the character and expression of the individuals
represented in pictorial composition be fully acknowledged, it
must also follow, as a necessary consequence, that whatever
contributes to enable us to effect this object, in the surest
and most satisfactory mode, demands every attention that can be
given to it. Nothing, indeed, appears more completely, or more
directly adapted to ensure the due expression of character and
emotion through the delineation of the countenance, than
arriving at a certain and exact knowledge of the mode in which,
through the countenance, these peculiarities are developed; and
the reducing this knowledge, as far as possible, to a regular
and methodical system applicable to practical operation.
Character as regards its manifestation by the face, appears to
depend mainly on two principles. 1. The special individual form
of each particular feature. 2. The acti