Conway, Agnes Ethel, Conway, Martin, Sir · London : Adam and Charles Black · leaf 182
ceremonial paintings, containingnumerous figures and commemorating historicalscenes in honour of his Royal patrons, were ex-ecuted by his own hands, or by the hands hetaught and guided, with great skill and speed.He painted also beautiful portraits of his wifeand family, and pictures of his own… … S u < > u — VAN DYCK 145 painted his own wives as often as Rembrandtpainted Saskia; both were plump enough tomake our memories recur with pleasure to theslenderer figures preferred by Botticelli and thepainters of his school. To accomplish the great mass of historic, sym-bolic, and ceremonial…
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