Sketches of great painters for young people (1902)
Dallin, Colonna Murray, Mrs · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and Company · leaf 161
onged to undertake somegreat decorative work, but the opportunity never cameto him. While in England, lie tried to get a com-mission for the decoration of the banqueting hall inthe royal palace of Whitehall, but he was not success-ful. In 1640 he went to Paris, hoping to obtain acommission for the… … 144 VAN DYCK. 145 civil war had begun, and the royal family were scattered.His own health was undermined by a life of gayety andluxury, and he became ill. The king, returning fromScotland, promised his physician a goodly sum if hecould preserve his favorites life; but it was impossi-ble, and Van…
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