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Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661) was a sympathetic and expressive painter, and it is surprising that he has not previously been the subject of a focused study. The quality and diversity of this currently littleknown artist's work will be a revelation. He worked on every scale - from the miniature to the full-length and big group portrait. His works, while always recognisably by him, reveal his exceptional flexibility and underline his response to successive influences. Johnson's career coincided with one of the most dramatically and politically intense periods of British and Dutch history, as this book will explore, and he portrayed some of the most important figures of the era. His royal portr...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
This is the first installment of a fully illustrated catalogue of the Academy's priceless collection of paintings and sculptures.