Note 45:[ (return) ] The notion that Van Dyck sacrificed truth to grace is absolutely contradicted by certain critics, who bring forward as a proof of their contradiction what they consider the 'over-true' picture of the Queen Henrietta Maria, shown at the last exhibition of the works of Old Masters. The picture seems hardly to warrant the strong opinion of the critics.
Note 46:[ (return) ] Walpole.
Note 47:[ (return) ] Walpole.
Note 48:[ (return) ] Lady Eastlake and Dr. Waagen's works on Italian, Flemish, and Dutch Art, modelled on Kugler.
Note 49:[ (return) ] A lunette is a small picture, generally semicircular, surmounting the main picture in an altar-piece.
Note 50:[ (return) ] The Dutch still more than the Italian artists belonged largely to families of artists bearing the same surnames.
Note 51:[ (return) ] A picture with one door of two panels is called a diptych, with two doors of three panels a triptych, with many doors and panels a polyptych.
Note 52:[ (return) ] Fairholt's 'Homes and Haunts of Foreign Artists.'
Note 53:[ (return) ] Alchemists, like hermits, still existed in the seventeenth century.
Note 54:[ (return) ] Bartholomew Van der Helst, 1613-1670, was another great Dutch portrait painter. His portrait pieces with many figures are famous. An 'Archery Festival,' commemorating the Peace of Westphalia, includes twenty-four figures full of individuality and finely drawn and coloured. One of his best works is 'In the Workhouse,' at Amsterdam. Two women and two men are conversing together in the foreground. There is a man with a book, and a preacher delivering a sermon in the background.