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Title: De luxe catalogue of notable paintings by Masters of the Early English, Dutch, Flemish and French schools : consigned by T.J. Blakeslee, to be sold at unrestricted public sale at Mendelssohn Hall on ... (April 9th and 10th, 1908) ..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Blakeslee, Theron J., d. 1914 American Art Association
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ground. She wears a simple white dress cut low in theneck and bound at the waist by a broad yellow sash. Her armsare bare to the elbows, and in one pudgy fist is clasped a rattleand coral. Her flaxen hair is confined by a lace cap. The back-gromid suggests the private park of a country gentleman. Height, 30 inches; width, 25 inches. From Duddon Hall, Broughton-in-Furness. No. 37GEOKGE H. BOGERT, A.K.A. Contemporary VENICE The view shows the smiling waters of a wide lagoon, on thebosom of which every kind of craft passes and repasses, fromthe little gondola to the felucca with its broad red sail, the gaycolors of which are reflected in the still water as in a mirror. Inthe distance, stretching across the picture, is a panorama ofVenice, showing all the notable buildings, the Campanile, theDoges palace, the church of Santa Maria and others too nu-merous to mention. The scene is bathed in sunlight from a blueItalian sky, in which float a few clouds. Height, 30 inches; length, 40 inches.
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No. 38GEOBGE BOMKEY 1734—1802 PORTRAIT OF MAJOR PARSONS Agent of the Hon. East India Company The portrait, painted with all the skill of which Romney wascapable, shows the agent of John Company in half lengthstanding in three-quarter view to the left. He is a florid-facedman of middle age, the hair thinning off the temples, and hewears a scarlet uniform coat fitting close to the figure. In hishand he bears a staiF sloping over his right shoulder. Height, 36 inches; width, 35 inches. No. 39NICOLAS DE EARGILLIERE 1656—1746 THE DUC DE PENTHIEVRE The half-length portrait of a man, the figure in profile to theright, the face turned directly towards the spectator. A cloakof red velvet lined with figured silk hangs round his shouldersand falls in heavy folds across his right arm, which is heldhorizontally, the hand pointing forward; a kerchief of finewhite lace is round his throat, and on his head is a full-bot-tomed wig, dressed high and falling in close ringlets belowthe shoulders. Hei

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