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This article examines the relationship between clerical portraits in some works from the Restoration period to the eighteenth century and the artists' changing perceptions of their roles as social reformers. The ancient literary tradition of portraiture of clergymen, “balanced portrait,” in which both the negative and negative are juxtaposed, remained an integral part of the writers' technique and suggested their relationship to the clerical figures. In the works the writers employed the balanced portrait. After the Restoration, writers began destroying the conventional antithesis. Though the balance still existed, the references to good clergymen are politically charged and begin to question the clergy's role as moral reformer.