Plate I.

MASTERPIECES
IN COLOUR
EDITED BY
T. LEMAN HARE

VAN DYCK

PLATE I.—CHARLES I. Frontispiece

(In the Louvre)

Certainly the finest portrait of Charles I. in existence. It showsVan Dyck in his most attractive aspect as a painter of thearistocracy. Executed before the marked decline in his technical powers,which marred, from an artistic standpoint, the later pictures of hisEnglish period, it yet possesses the dignity and distinction he knewso well how to infuse in portraying the nobility of our country. Itis one of the best examples of the artist's powers as a colourist, andas such will bear comparison with the productions of the mightyVenetians.

Plate I.

Van Dyck

BY PERCY M. TURNER

ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT
REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK
NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.

CONTENTS

I. The Early Days
II. The Journey to Italy
III. The Second Flemish Manner
IV. Van Dyck in England
V. Van Dyck's Position in Art

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate

I. Charles I. . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
          In the Louvre

II. Charles Louis of Bavaria and his brother
        Robert, afterwards Duke of Cumberland
          In the Louvre

III. Prince d'Arenberg
          In Lord Spencer's Collection, Althorp

IV. Portrait of Van Dyck (or The Artist)
          In Lord Spencer's Collection, Althorp

V. Philippe le Roy, Seigneur de Ravel
          In the Wallace Collection

VI. Portrait of one of Charles I.'s children
          In the Academy of Fine Arts, Rome

VII. Portrait of the Artist's Wife
          In the Pinakothek, Munich

VIII. The Marchese Cattaneo
          In the National Gallery

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