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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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ft, and came to Englandon the invitation of Charles I. to paint his portrait. Healso painted portraits of royalty and the great men of histime in Holland and elsewhere, and he is represented in thevarious museums of Europe. From the collection of the late M. Maurius Vlierboom vanHoboken, Amsterdam. No- 36.JACOB RUYSDAEL J630—J68K Forest Scenery. Height, 35 inches. Width, 48 inches. THIS landscape, grand in conception and noble in execu-tion, has all the dignity and impressiveness of the greatDutchmans work. Through a glade in the forest are somecattle drinking at a stream. A dog stands by, and somefigures are seen in the distance. Gnarled oak-trees, statelyin form and splendidly drawn and painted, make great massesagainst a cloud-filled sky, touched here and there by sun-light, which also filters through occasionally and illuminatesthe turf. A feeling of profundity and distance is well con-veyed, and the composition is admirably arranged. From the collection of Colonel Hankey. q COO
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Oh o %a No. 37.SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 1730—1792.Portrait of Sir Walter Blackett. Height, 30 inches. Width, 25 inches. THE distinguished president of the Royal Academy, whofor so many years enjoyed to a remarkable degree the favorof the King and all the fashionable world of London, is rep-resented here with one of his virile portraits of men. Shownfull face, the subject is a dignified, typical English noble,dressed in a blue coat, with a white neckerchief and wearinga wig. The face stands notably out from a dark back-ground. Painted in 1778. Sir Joshua painted Sir WalterBlackett no less than five times. w No. 38.BERNARD VAN ORLEY. *493—1542. Madonna and Child. Height, 35 inches. Width, 25 inches. A PUPIL of Raphael and a great favorite with his master,court painter to Margaret of Austria, Governess of the Neth-erlands, this renowned Flemish painter was the author ofsome of the most remarkable sacred pictures of his day.Many of them are in the museums of Brussels, Antwerp,Munich, Dres

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