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With a good-natured, ribald laugh, Boyne poured out another glass of marsala and pushed it gently over to Dyck's fingers. "My gin to your marsala," he said, and he raised his own glass of gin, looking playfully over the top to Dyck. With a sudden loosening of all the fibres of his nature, Dyck raised the glass of marsala to his lips and drained it off almost at a gulp.
It's the best navy in the world, the freest and the greatest, and with Bonaparte going at us, England will have enough to do too much, I'm thinking. So there's a career in the French navy open. And listen before you and I are two months older, the French navy will be in the harbours of Ireland, and the French army will land here." He reached out and grasped Dyck's arm.
It was apparently unknown to Morelli, nor is it mentioned by other critics. Morelli, ii. 205. Crowe and Cavalcaselle, ii. 128. Mr. Claude Phillips, in the Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1884, p. 286, rightly admits Giorgione's authorship. This sketch is to be found in Van Dyck's note-book, now in possession of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth.
Dyck's smile seemed to come from infinite distance. He was not normal; he was submerged. He was in the great, consuming atmosphere of the bigger world, and the greater life. He even did not hate Mallow at the moment. The thing about to be done was to him a test of manhood. It was a call upon the courage of the soul, a challenge of life, strength, and will.
In spite of the fact that the expressions on the faces are often intimate and appealing, domesticity is not the mark of his art. In Van Dyck's picture of our 'heir of fame, the white linen, the yellow satin, and the armour please us as befitting the lovely face. There is a glimmer of light on the armour, but you see how different is Van Dyck's treatment of it from Rembrandt's.
The Earl of Clarendon, in the next reign, had a great partiality for Van Dyck's pictures, and was said to be courted by gifts of them until his apartments at Cornbury were furnished with full-length 'Van Dycks. A third of his collection went to Kitty Hyde, Duchess of Queensberry, one of the Earl's three co-heiresses.
Dyck's tempestuous nature, the poetry and imagination of him, would quickly respond to French culture, to the new orders of the new day in France. Meanwhile, he must be soaked in drugged drink. Already the wine had played havoc with him; already stupefaction was coming over his senses.
Van Dyck's ambition was to excel in historical works, but the demand upon him for portraits never left him much leisure for other subjects. How often "man proposes, but God disposes." Alfonso and Leo reached Dort or Dordrecht, which in the middle ages was the most powerful and wealthy commercial city in Holland.
There are three half-grown boys in tunics without collars, and great roses in their shoes, with a dare three daughters of the family who died in infancy. Van Dyck's finest sacred pictures were his early 'Crucifixion, and a Pieta, at Antwerp. In these he gave a promise of nobler and deeper pathos than he afterwards fulfilled.
Dyck's smile seemed to come from infinite distance. He was not normal; he was submerged. He was in the great, consuming atmosphere of the bigger world, and the greater life. He even did not hate Mallow at the moment. The thing about to be done was to him a test of manhood. It was a call upon the courage of the soul, a challenge of life, strength, and will.
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