title: The art of portrait painting;: Portraits through the centuries as seen through the eyes of a practicing portrait painter
author: Gordon Christian Aymar
description: USED VERY GOOD HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET WITH MINOR SHELF LIFE WEAR CONSIDERING ITS AGE.
zlib_text: IMAGINARY PORTRAITS
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  IMAGINARY
  PORTRAITS
  by Walter Pater
  4th edition
  
  IMAGINARY PORTRAITS
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   CONTENTS
  CHAPTER I.  A PRINCE OF COURT PAINTERS
  CHAPTER II.  DENYS L'AUXERROIS
  CHAPTER III.  SEBASTIAN VAN STORCK
  CHAPTER IV.  DUKE CARL OF ROSENMOLD
  
  IMAGINARY PORTRAITS
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  CHAPTER I. A PRINCE OF
  COURT PAINTERS
  EXTRACTS FROM AN OLD FRENCH JOURNAL
  Valenciennes, September 1701.
  They have been renovating my father's large workroom. That
  delightful, tumble-down old place has lost its moss-grown tiles and the
  green weather-stains we have known all our lives on the high whitewashed
  wall, opposite which we sit, in the little sculptor's yard, for the coolness, in
  summertime. Among old Watteau's workpeople came his son, "the
  genius," my father's godson and namesake, a dark-haired youth, whose
  large, unquiet eyes seemed perpetually wandering to the various drawings
  which lie exposed here. My father will have it that he is a genius indeed,
  and a painter born. We have had our September Fair in the Grande 