he Olivers graduallylet slip the charm of the art that he bequeathedthem. When we begin to look at the character of aface, have we taken the first step away from thepurely artistic judgment of the picture ? When theinterest of the face depicted excludes from presentconsciousness the grace of… … ANNE CLIFl OKI , COUNTESS OK DORSET (1590-1676)BY ISAAC OLIVER or does art also rest with rendering that interestof the face, is such interpretation of characterthe highest art of all? It must be concededthat it is generally considered to be so, andthat in this Holbein and Samuel Cooper…
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