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                 [Illustration: PORTRAIT OF VAN DYCK
                 _Prado Gallery, Madrid_]


                         Masterpieces of Art


                               VAN DYCK

                   A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN PICTURES

                    AND A PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER

                        WITH INTRODUCTION AND

                            INTERPRETATION



                                  BY

                           ESTELLE M. HURLL





                         BOSTON AND NEW YORK

                      HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

                    The Riverside Press Cambridge

                                 1902



             COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

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PREFACE


The fame of Van Dyck's portraits has so far over-shadowed that of his
other works that his sacred pictures are for the most part unfamiliar
to the general public. The illustrations for this little book are
equally divided between portraits and subject-pieces, and it is hoped
that the selection may give the reader some adequate notion of the
scope of the painter's art.

ESTELLE M. HURLL.

NEW BEDFORD, MASS.,

March, 1902.

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CONTENTS AND LIST OF PICTURES


Portrait of Van Dyck (DETAIL)          (_Frontispiece_)

Picture from Carbon Print by Braun, Clement & Co.

INTRODUCTION

    I.  ON VAN DYCK'S CHARACTER AS AN ARTIST

   II.  ON BOOKS OF REFERENCE

  III.  HISTORICAL DIRECTORY OF THE PICTURES OF THIS COLLECTION

   IV.  OUTLINE TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN VAN DYCK'S LIFE

    V.  LIST OF CONTEMP