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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> All the pictures by such foreigners from Holbein Van Dyck Lely and Kneller to very much lesser fry have been included in this volume because their English works are an indispensable part of the un- rivalled demonstration provided in the royal collection of the development of the English portrait. It has also seemed undesirable to split the ?uvre of an artist and more logical to include pictures painted abroad by such artists as Holbein Van Dyck Cornelius Johnson and Hanneman than to postporie treatment of such pictures to later volumes.* This volume also contains the pictures in the collection by a small number of shadowy foreign painters whose only works in the collection are English royal portraits admittedly painted abroad but important links in the succession of royal portraits. For this reason the portraits by Charles Wautier Martin Maingaud Kayser and Klyher have been included. On the other hand more important foreign painters of royal portraits whose links with the royal families were more tenuous have been kept back for a later volume. For example the portraits of James IV and his family by Van der Goes of Henry VIII by Joos van Cleve or of Mary Queen of Scots from the studio of Fran?ois Clouet will ultimately be found in the Flemish and French sections of this Catalogue. Amigoni’s royal portraits on the other hand justify his inclusion in this part. (OS)