Stories of the Flemish & Dutch artists, from the time of the Van Eycks to the end of the seventeenth century (1908)
Reynolds, Victor, comp · London, Chatto & Windus; New York, Duffield & Co. · leaf 278
the same subject; and besidesthis he was inexhaustible in his power over ex-pression and grouping, and also in the matter ofcostume. He was most painstaking in his pre-parations and sketches, sometimes sketching a faceas many as ten times in different positions beforehe placed it on the canvas ;… … THE GOLDFINCH( The Hague) REMBRANDT VAN RIJN 215 some of the early ones being smooth and minute,while in later times he came to work so broadlyand with so thick, an impasto that it is said thatone of his portraits could be lifted up from theground by the nose, which projected from thecanvas.…
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