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...walls of the main upper gallery of the Fogg Museum may now be seen a large collection of photographs from works by the German, Flemish and Dutch masters: Durer, Holbein, Rubens, Van Dyck and Rembrandt. They are, for the most part, portraits-including those of historical personages such as Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves, Charles I and Henrietta his Queen, William of Nassau, Edward VI, Philipe IV of Spain, Marie de Medicis, Descartes, Erasmus, Bishop Warham, and portraits by their own hands respectively of Duren, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Rembrandt...
...with great success and his fame soon reached London, where he was asked to exhibit. Among the best portraits he did at this time were those of the Parish Clerk, David Garrick and Lady Mary Carr. In the country places around Bath, Gainsborough saw some pictures by Van Dyck, which revealed to him a new world of art. He greatly improved his treatment of draperies and imparted to them a superb depth of color. While at Bath, Gainsborough also painted a great many landscapes, which are now considered his masterpieces. He had a knack of giving a momentary effect...
...Dyck's text yesterday evening was 1 Cor. 6: 20, "For ye are bought with a price." He said: There is a great truth here. Liberty is the recognition of the highest law, the law of love and gratitude. So then true liberty is the highest kind of bondage. There are three broad statements in regard to life that I wish to submit to you and ask you for a judgment upon their truth...
This article teems with misprints: Van Dyck is Vansyke; spezzi is spezzos; signor, meaning "sir," is accorded a final e, which we do not remember to have previously seen; and, worst of all, Catania is called Catonia no less than four times, -the writer having apparently derived its name from the Roman Stoic, instead of from its old Greek name Karava...
...Athenaeum records a sale at London of a number of the prints that have been heliotyped: Durer's "Melancholia," pound 31; Marc Antonio's "Adam and Eve," pound 59, and his "St. Cecilia," pound 50; Rembrandt's "Three Trees," pound 123; a print from Van Dyck's "Iconographia," pound...