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...subject whose disdainful brow, thin smile and scornfully intelligent eye must have been a relief to the painter after his usual run of exuberantly plump females and amorous burlies. On the west wall of the same room would be a large canvas by Rubens' sensitive pupil, Anthony van Dyck, showing the Marchesa Lommelini, a 17th Century Genoese beauty, and her two infants, piously gowned, posed beside a statuette of Christ...
...Rubens came to Fifth Avenue via the salons of princes and potentates. The Van Dyck, worth perhaps $200,000, was one of a set of eight that were, until 1906, the pride of the Palazzo Cattaneo (Genoa) for three centuries...
...whom were the chief paintings in the Taft collection painted? Names: Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Hals, Hobbema, Goya, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Turner, Millet, Inness, Chase...
There are now so many good private U. S. collections that choice is difficult. Last week Jackson Johnson of St. Louis, Chairman of the International Shoe Co. was reported to have made his collection (a Romney, a Raeburn, etc.) more eclectic by buying in London Van Dyck's "Portrait of Queen Henrietta," painted by order of Charles...
Tasso's epic poem, Jerusalem Delivered, was Van Dyck's inspiration for the painting. Armida, a lovely sorceress, tempts Knight Rinaldo from his crusade against the infidel in Jerusalem. The canvas shows Rinaldo, with half his armor off, lolling sublimely in the caresses of Armida and her sprites. Van Dyck painted it expressly for Charles I in 1629 and 1630. It has been in England ever since, until Knoedler & Co. recently bought it, shipped it to Manhattan. Jacob Epstein first saw it in Knoedler's London galleries...