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Title: Catalogue of the Ehrich Galleries collection of valuable paintings : by the masters of the classic Italian, Dutch, Flemish, English, Spanish, and French schools
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fifth Avenue Art Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Ehrich Galleries
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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It fully equals the masterpieces of William Van de
Velde.
Signed lower right: J. Beerestraaten.
On panel; height, 29³/₄ inches; width, 42¹/₄ inches.

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THOMAS WILLEBORTS BOSSCHAERT
Flemish School
1613-1656
Bosschaert was a follower of Rubens. After studying at
Antwerp, he visited Italy for further improvement, remaining at
Rome four years. Returning to Flanders, he soon gained dis-
tinction. His coloring is tender and harmonious, and his heads
have a pleasing and graceful expression. An admirable example
of his work is in The Hague Gallery.

THE YOUNG BACCHUS
A contemporary of Rubens and Jordaens, the pictures of
this painter are often assigned to one or the other. His panther
is an amiable beast and his boy Bacchus is a rather self-contained
child, in view of his energetic actions with the bowl of wine. One
sees here a splendid feeling for color and for the rounded masses
of baby flesh; also an unusual skill at having the face foreshort-ened.
Fine decorative panel for a drawing-room.
On canvas; height, 36 inches; width, 51 inches

MRS. COLLEY CIBBER.
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THOMAS HUDSON
1701-I779
Catalogue No. 39

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THOMAS HUDSON
English School
1701-1779
Hudson was the master of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and, as evi-
denced by this example, a portrait-painter of great merit. His
portrait of his fellow-artist Scott is in the National Gallery, and
several of his works are in the National Portrait Gallery of
England.

MRS. COLLEY CIBBER

The very upright attitude, the drawing of the face, the atti-
tude of hands recall the portraits by Lely and Kneller, but there
is a life-like quality in the flesh tints that give to Hudsons por-
traits an individuality of their own. The color scheme is peculiar.
Set off by the greenish gray of the satin dress, which is composed
of majestic folds, the reds of elbow cushion and draperies and
lips, the mauve of the ribbons in the hair and at the sleeves, the
rich chestnut of eyes and hair form a combination which might
have been noisy, but is in fact thoroughly harmonious.
This is a fine bit of decoration, aside from its interest to the
history of the British stage, as the portrait of the greatest English
actress of her time.
On canvas; height, 50¹/₂ inches; width, 41 inches.

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