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Identifier: frick-31072001452285 (find matches)
Title: Early English, Dutch and Flemish paintings at the Blakeslee Galleries, 353 Fifth Avenue .. (electronic resource)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Blakeslee Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Frick Art Reference Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council – METRO

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hly representative of the time and the thought of the epoch. The theme is The Way of the Cross as seen through mediaeval minds; the costumes, architecture, and surroundings being of the artists time, and thus presenting to more modern minds an anachronism exceedingly curious, but by no means unusual in those days. The scene is, in the main, St. Lukes account of the terrible journey of the Son of Man, from Jerusalem to Calvary, bowed under the weight of the Cross. The Saviour is assisted by Simon the Cyrenian in his awful task, and behind him there are those who jibe and jeer. Behind also are the buildings of the city, represented in this case as a mediaeval stronghold, while in the words of the Apostle, and there followed him a great company of people and of women which also bewailed him. The three Marys are seen in the middle of the composition, while in the immediate foreground are a party of young men and old, and a knight in full armor. Now in the collection of Mrs. Frank Gair Macomber. X
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b oo o No. 43. SIR WILLIAM BEECHY. J753—*839. Portrait of Miss Murray - Height, 30 inches. Width, 25 inches. BEECHY enjoyed to the highest degree the friendship and favor of his King and Queen, and painted them under the most interesting circumstances; his renowned canvas of the large equestrian portrait of George III., with the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, at a review in Hyde Park, being now at the Hampton Court Gallery, along with many other of his portraits. Queen Charlotte made him official portrait painter, while all fashionable London flocked to his studio. While he was renowned for the accuracy of his likenesses, his conception was poetic, his color delicate, and his brushwork appetizing. The young lady in this portrait is dressed in white, and leans against a tree at the edge of a woodland, a landscape being seen to the left. At her side is a dog, which she caresses. An attractive girlish face is surrounded by a wealth of auburn curls; the cheeks are richly colored, and the eyes lo

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