Millar, Oliver — Van Dyck in England

London, National Portrait Gallery Publications, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial covers; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Foreword by John Hayes, Director of the National Portrait Gallery Publications institution. Fine survey of painterly history across England from the Renaissance genius of Holbein down to the brilliant purity of the Pre-Raphaelites, spanning from Hogarth's The Harlot's Progress to Holman Hunt's The Awakened Conscience. Van Dyck, Stubbs, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Constable, and Turner, among others, are featured here. More than 80 fine reproductions. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 176 pp.[4]5, 120 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New