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This we learn from Rubens himself in his interesting correspondence with Sir Dudley Carleton , British Ambassador at the Hague . These letters dating from the year 1618 , great number of which have been published , are invaluable for ...
This we learn from Rubens himself in his interesting correspondence with Sir Dudley Carleton , British Ambassador at the Hague . These letters dating from the year 1618 , great number of which have been published , are invaluable for ...
Page 58
Carleton then wrote to Rubens that he had selected six pictures . And further invited the painter to visit him at the Hague , to inspect his antique marbles , which formed a collection such as no prince nor private individual possessed ...
Carleton then wrote to Rubens that he had selected six pictures . And further invited the painter to visit him at the Hague , to inspect his antique marbles , which formed a collection such as no prince nor private individual possessed ...
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Another circumstance worth mentioning , since it is so characteristic of the artist , we also learn from this correspondence with Sir Dudley Carleton ; namely that Rubens was most anxious to satisfy the buyer by giving him the choice of ...
Another circumstance worth mentioning , since it is so characteristic of the artist , we also learn from this correspondence with Sir Dudley Carleton ; namely that Rubens was most anxious to satisfy the buyer by giving him the choice of ...
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Carleton was delighted with the pictures he acquired and Rubens was more than happy with the antique marbles he received in exchange . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstängl . Munich . ( To page 70. ) Fig . 50.
Carleton was delighted with the pictures he acquired and Rubens was more than happy with the antique marbles he received in exchange . After a photograph from the original by Franz Hanfstängl . Munich . ( To page 70. ) Fig . 50.
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This is a most impressively realistic piece of work , and we can quite understand why Rubens , in the list made for Sir Dudley Carleton , stated of a similar picture of fisherinen , that it was " painted from life " .
This is a most impressively realistic piece of work , and we can quite understand why Rubens , in the list made for Sir Dudley Carleton , stated of a similar picture of fisherinen , that it was " painted from life " .
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| Title | Rubens Added t.-p.: Monographs on artists ... IX Volume 9 of Monographs on artists ... IX |
| Author | Hermann Knackfuss |
| Translated by | Luise Marie Schwaab Richter |
| Publisher | Velhagen & Klasing, 1904 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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