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...moment of his lamentable assassination by the syndicate's reporter. He ran his eye through wads of anecdote apotheosizing his commendable arrogance, his cosmopolitanism, his indifference to money; he scanned columns of doting verbiage in which criticasters acclaimed him as "The Modern Velasquez," "The Modern Van Dyck," mourned him as a mortal but set him among the gods, his head on Abraham's bosom, his feet in Titian's lap. He smiled...
...their own right. There are Italian cassone, papal chairs, a cheminée of Francis the First. Spanish embossed leather covers the walls of one room. Among the artists represented are Raphael, Veronese, Titian, Botticelli,, Fra Angelico, Giotto, Pollaiuolo, da Fabriano, Diirer, Holbein, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Ribera, Velasquez, Sargent, Zorn, La Farge, Whistler. Three of the most famous paintings are da Fabriano's Madonna and Child, Titian's magnificent Rape of Europa, and the glorious Velasquez portrait Pope Innocent X. It is hoped that the collection will still be available to students and lovers...
...July 4 an important auction at Christie's will dispose of a newly authenticated Rembrandt, Two Men Conversing, with certificates attached, and 63 of the Duke of Westminster's collection, including important canvases by Rubens, Van Dyck, Bellini, Murillo, Raphael, del Sarto, Titian, Veronese...
...break promises," that "historically, the quarrel resolved itself into . . . whether a king can raise taxes without the consent of his Parliament." And H. G. Wells describes him as "probably one of the meanest and most treacherous occupants the English throne has ever known." His whiskers were painted by Van Dyck...
...Young Fortune Teller, portraits of two children of the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Henry and Lady Charlotte Spencer, in an Italian landscape, the little girl costumed as a gypsy and reading the palm of the little boy, five years old, dressed in a red satin Van Dyck suit. The picture is full of childish grace and animation...