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In this Arcadian portrait, Anthony van Dyck pictures Philip, 4th Baron Wharton, standing before a shimmering green drapery against a rocky backdrop, while holding a shepherd’s houlette in the crook of his arm. His regal pose and his sumptuous attire with its rich golden-yellow, purple, and emerald tones convey both grace and elegance, while his gaze exudes self-confidence.
[1] Oliver Millar, "Philip, Lord Wharton, and His Collection of Portraits," The

Eighteenth Century Studies 33, no. 4 (Summer 2000): 548, 551, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver

Domenichino was trained at the art academy run by the Carracci family in Bologna during the last decades of the sixteenth century. In 1602 he joined his master Annibale Carracci in Rome and assisted him with the fresco decorations of the galleria in the Palazzo Farnese.
Hand, John Oliver.

A pleasant sense of ease and harmony pervades this landscape of almost photographic clarity. The large areas of brilliant sunshine and cool shade, the rambling line of the fence, and the beautiful balance of trees, meadow, and river are evidence of the artist’s creative synthesis of the actual site.
, Realism, and the Nineteenth-Century World, 1998: 1, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver

Through the 1920s, Matisse stayed in Nice from late fall to early spring of each year, while his wife and family remained in Issy-les-Moulineaux outside Paris. Pianist and Checker Players is set in Matisse’s Nice apartment and shows the artist’s favorite model, Henriette Darricarère, and her two brothers.
New Haven, 2000: 264 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Like his compatriot Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain forged his career in Rome. Claude’s vision of the Roman countryside is grounded in a careful observation of nature, but he transformed the landscape into a timeless, idealized world through his masterful rendering of sunlight and strict structuring of space.
London, 1994: 40, fig. 18. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Hostilities between North American colonists and Britain were boiling over in the 1770s when Benjamin West painted this double portrait. The British wanted to ensure the loyalty of the Mohawk people, the easternmost tribe of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), in case of war.
Paris, 1999: 387, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Vincent van Gogh painted 36 self-portraits. This was one of his last.
New York, 2000: 54, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Giovanni della Casa, who is in all likelihood the subject of this portrait, belonged to a wealthy Tuscan family and rose to prominence in the service of the church. As poet, humanist, and political theorist, he circulated at the highest levels of Italian intellectual life.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2003: 339. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Rome, 1997: 187 – 192, fig. 2. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.