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Was a princely price in those parsimonious times, and all the evidence points to the fact that the fees to the great painters of the day, from Van Dyck downwards, were in the same pro portion. The value of these portraits as historical documents is enormous. Even where they do not quite touch the higher realms of art, they still preserve an accurate record of the costume and life of the period, besides filling up in family histories the gaps which are the despair of genealogy. Lf Dal keith Palace (included in the present volume) be taken as an example, we get at once some idea of the wealth and extent of portraiture in these treasure houses. Here then are portraits by Holbein, Van Dyck, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Kneller, Lely, Sir William Beechey, Wilkie, and Jame sone (nicknamed the Scottish Van Dyck). It would be possible to write a history of portraiture from the Dalkeith Palace pictures alone. And they are only a few items in a collection which includes many Celebrated old masters, and in which one room is decorated by twenty-five sketches by Guardi let into panels for the wall. The discrimination and taste which selected Guardi rather than Canaletto for this work, are worthy of recognition by the modern art critics.
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Was a princely price in those parsimonious times, and all the evidence points to the fact that the fees to the great painters of the day, from Van Dyck downwards, were in the same pro portion. The value of these portraits as historical documents is enormous. Even where they do not quite touch the higher realms of art, they still preserve an accurate record of the costume and life of the period, besides filling up in family histories the gaps which are the despair of genealogy. Lf Dal keith Palace (included in the present volume) be taken as an example, we get at once some idea of the wealth and extent of portraiture in these treasure houses. Here then are portraits by Holbein, Van Dyck, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Kneller, Lely, Sir William Beechey, Wilkie, and Jame sone (nicknamed the Scottish Van Dyck). It would be possible to write a history of portraiture from the Dalkeith Palace pictures alone. And they are only a few items in a collection which includes many Celebrated old masters, and in which one room is decorated by twenty-five sketches by Guardi let into panels for the wall. The discrimination and taste which selected Guardi rather than Canaletto for this work, are worthy of recognition by the modern art critics.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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