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Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Portraits of English Historical Personages Who Died Between 1625 and 1714: Exhibited in the Examination Schools, Oxford, April and May, MDCCCCV Short, however, as was the career of Van Dyck in England, its effect was of instantaneous importance. Among his numerous pupils and assistants, who were employed in turning out of his workshop the many repetitions and copies of such portraits as were most in demand by the King or Queen or the nobility or by the royalist adherents during the Civil War, there were painters of English birth, like Dobson, and others, whose deri vation from Van Dyck is sufficiently obvious, such as Robert Walker and John Michael Wright, to say nothing of the greatest Of all portrait-painters in miniature, Samuel Cooper. It is a habit, which recent historians such as Dr. Gardiner and Professor Firth have done something to dispel, to look upon the years of the Commonwealth as a period of gloomy negation with regard to the study and practice of art. It is true that after the glamour of Van Dyck and the reflected twilight Of Dobson during the residence of the Court at Oxford, the Cromwellian period seems somewhat sombre and uninteresting, but in reality there was being engendered in the country a school Of native-born artists, such as Robert Walker, J. M. Wright, John Riley, and later on Sir James Thornhill, to whom is due the credit of being the pioneers of a national school of painting, a credit which is often unduly bestowed upon William Hogarth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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