Painters and sculptors : a second series of Old masters and new (1907)
Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919 · New York : Duffield · leaf 106
s and students of art willalways admire them, but the world has turned toanother part of the great mans work for its pleas-ure—a part of it which he produced to please himself,the surest way to please others. At fifty-three Rubens took for his second wife agirl of sixteen, Helena Fourment, radiant… … PAINTERS OF THE MODE 51 thing that was to be known of the ait of painting,and he laid all his skill and experience at the feet ofhis young wife, painting, for his own amusement, aseries of portraits of her, and of smallish pictures inwhich she is ever the principal figure, which are scat-tered…
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