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Stories of the Painters

by Amy Steedman

First Edition

Price: $14.00


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Book description: New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1938 253 pages including index of artists' names, with 32 color plates and 39 black and white plates. Brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering and picture shows rubbing along spine, light corner wear, bumping to corners; prior owner signature on inside free endpaper. Short biographical sketches of many artists, by the school of painting: The Italian School (18 individuals), Spanish (includes Valazquez, Murillo, and Goya), Flemish (includes (Hubert and Jan van Eyck and Hans Memlinc), German (includes Albrecht Durer and Hans Holbein), the Dutch and later Flemish schools (Frans Hals, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Anthony Van Dyck), the French School (includes Claude Lorrain, Antoine Watteau, and Vigee le Brun), and the English School (Includes Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney, Raeburn, Constable, and Turner).. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

  • Bookseller: Dragon's Head Books and Gifts US (US)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 202545
  • Format/binding: Hardcover
  • Book condition: Very Good
  • Jacket condition: No Jacket
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons
  • Place: New York
  • Date published: 1938
  • Keywords: Noisbn; Artists, Biography; Painters, Biography; Biographical Sketches, Painters;
  • Subjects: ART / General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General;

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