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Perhaps the reason Alere never took to colours was because of his inherent and unswerving truthfulness of character. Genuine to a degree, he could not make believe -- could not deceive -- could not masquerade in a dress-coat.
Now, most of the landscape-painting in vogue today is nature in a dress-coat.