Identifier: frick-31072001452285 (find matches)
Title: Early English, Dutch and Flemish paintings at the Blakeslee Galleries, 353 Fifth Avenue .. (electronic resource)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Blakeslee Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Frick Art Reference Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council – METRO

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xclusively in such works, and our importations ofrecent years have included some of the most importantexamples of the older masters, and in particular the earlyEnglishmen, from Sir Joshua through all his contemporariesand followers, that have ever been brought to this country.These canvases we have placed in the galleries of many ofthe greatest collectors in America, where they remain amongtheir most prized possessions. In offering this catalogue,which covers, of course, only a minor portion of the paintingsin the gallery, and which is the second of a series whereof thefirst was received with much favor, it is announced thatmany of the works included since the catalogue was com-menced have passed from our possession. It has beendeemed wise, however, to allow the reproductions to beincluded in this edition, and where the permission of thepurchaser has been obtained the present ownership is given. T. J. Blakeslee. 353 Fifth Avenue, cor. of 34TH Street,New York City, 1899. CATALOGUE No.w
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MRS. GIBBON AS MIRA No. J. (Frontispiece*) DANIEL MYTENS.1590—1656. Sir William Crofts. Height, 80 inches. Width, 50 inches. MYTENS came to England from Holland early in hiscareer, and achieved a flattering success, being court painterto Charles I. until he was supplanted by Van Dyck. Hepainted much in the same manner as Van Dyck, althoughMytens was not, as is sometimes erroneously asserted, animitator, for his technique was the same long before thetalented man from Antwerp appeared on the scene. Manyof his great portraits remain in England, and are highlyprized by reason of their excellence of color, drawing, andmodelling. No more worthy example has come to thiscountry than this canvas of Sir William Crofts, who is repre-sented standing against a noble tree, behind which a fine land-scape stretches away in the distance. Gentleness, the dig-nified poise of the figure, and the nobility of countenance areall the work of an undisputed master, and the color schemeis particularly refinedfrick-31072001452285

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