Product Description: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Product Description: Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) is among the greatest portrait painters of all time. The 1990s opened and closed with major exhibitions devoted to his work and this is a catalogue raisonne of his painted oeuvre. A native of Antwerp, Van Dyck also lived and worked for long periods in Italy and England, where his brief, productive life ended...read more

Product Description: Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. In spite of its significance, all previous editions were inadequately edited and suffered from a number of omissions--until Robert Latham and William Matthews went back to the 300-year-old original manuscript and deciphered each passage and phrase, no matter how obscure or indiscreet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Published to coincide with the exhibition at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 25th July to 8th November, 1998, this detailed and illustrated account covers works collected by Princes of Wales from ca. 1500 to ca. 1900' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this collection of essays on aspects of the arts in Stuart England, fourteen distinguished scholars pay tribute to Sir Oliver Millar, whose pre-eminence as an authority on the visual arts in seventeenth-century England is well known...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A detailed survey of well over 1000 pictures purchased or commissioned by Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and members of their family from artists, both British and foreign, working in this country. The catalogue, which contains portraits, paintings of events and ceremonials during the Queen's reign, and many other subjects, provides a unique record of the life, family circle and reign of Queen Victoria...read more

Briefly describes the life and career of the Flemish-born painter and examines the portraits and landscapes he created while in England