Studies in pictures; an introduction to the famous galleries (1907)
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 76
. There is another fruitful source of error that maybother the student. There are old copies that comedown to us of celebrated works, and these are handedout by their possessors as replicas—that is, repeti-tions of the same subject by the same artist; when,as stated, they are only copies by… … X,-SEBASTIANO DEL PIOMBO, Portra-t, Uffizi, Florence. FALSE ATTRIBUTIONS, COPIES, FORGERIES 35 grinding color and doing general work about thestudio for many months. Sir Joshua -would, perhaps,set him at work copying some of his paintings forpractice. Let us suppose that after a time the youthmakes…
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