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The children's book of art (1909)

Conway, Agnes Ethel, Conway, Martin, Sir · London : Adam and Charles Black · leaf 188

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mented with a second-rateItalian artist, who painted some ceilings which stillexist at Hampton Court. Rubens was too muchin demand at other Courts for Charles to have hisexclusive service, but the courtly Van Dyck wasa painter after his own heart. For the first timehe had found an artist who… … William II of Orange.From the picture by Van Dyck, in the Hermitage Gallery, St. Pet« VAN DYCK 149 than he had paid his inferior predecessors, but VanDyck continued to paint for him to the end, andby Heavens mercy died himself before the crashcame, which overthrew Charles and scattered…

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