Conway, Agnes Ethel, b. 1885, Conway, William Martin, Sir, 1856-1937, joint author · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 184
ir handsome sakes, as Landseer paintedthem in England fifty years ago. Thus the seventeenth century in Holland showsan enlargement in the scope of subjects for paint-ing. Devotional pictures were becoming rare, butillustrations, sacred and secular, portraits, groups,interiors, and landscapes, were… … CHAPTER XI VAN DYCK The great painter Rubens lived at Antwerp, atown about as near to Amsterdam as Dover isto London. Yet despite the proximity of Flandersand Holland, their religion, politics, social life,and art were very different in the seventeenthcentury, as we have already seen. Rubens was a…
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