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Updated: May 14, 2025
See the difference; the high, wide arch of the skull is lowered or narrowed; the broad brow cramped; the features finer cut, but losing in force what they gain in fineness. Look, for instance, at this Vandyck of Sir John Suckling, only the next generation after the great men; but his portrait is that of an idler, his head that of a man without great thoughts or great interests.
These distinguished tenants bear the name of Vandyck, though they are members of the noble family of Brignole- Sale, one of whose children the Duchess of Galliera has lately given proof of nobleness in presenting the gallery of the red palace to the city of Genoa.
The magnificent series of pictures give character and dignity to the room. Occupying almost two-thirds of the north end is an oil-painting of King Charles I. and his family, by Vandyck, in 1632. There is a mournful expression on all the faces, even those of the two small children in the front.
Tintoret, Titian, Veronese, Rubens, and Vandyck, would be very sorry to part with their figured stuffs and lustrous silks; and sorry, observe, exactly in the degree of their picturesque feeling. Should not we also be sorry to have Bishop Ambrose without his vest, in that picture of the National Gallery? But I think Vandyck would not have liked, on the other hand, the vest without the bishop.
Procter, sitting next to me, put his hand on my shoulder, and, with a look expressive of ludicrous pity and contempt for the idiotic speaker, whispered, "And yet Vandyck married the daughter of Earl Gower, poor fellow!" The mock solemnity of Procter's manner was irresistible. It had a wink in it that really embodied the genius of fun and sarcasm.
He wrote a Life of Mahomet, and also a work in which he attempted to bridge over the interval between the Old and New Testaments rather a ticklish job, one might imagine. There are a good many excellent pictures at the house a Vandyck and many Opies; but the visitor, unless specially introduced, will have to be content with the outside of the beautiful manor-house.
Besides, his advice to Vandyck to visit Italy where his own powers had been, as his pupil's would be, greatly strengthened may be considered as sufficient to refute it entirely.
He admired not only the decoration, the gilding, the carving, in the most expensive Pompadour style, as it is called, and the magnificent brocades, all of which any enriched tradesman could have procured for money; but he also noted such treasures as only princes can select and find, can pay for and give away; two pictures by Greuze, two by Watteau, two heads by Vandyck, two landscapes by Ruysdael, and two by le Guaspre, a Rembrandt, a Holbein, a Murillo, and a Titian, two paintings, by Teniers, and a pair by Metzu, a Van Huysum, and an Abraham Mignon in short, two hundred thousand francs' worth of pictures superbly framed.
After some hesitation he did so, and was so successful that at first Rubens did not detect the fact that another had worked on the picture. When he did discover it, and learned the truth about it he forgave the offence heartily. When Vandyck was nineteen years old he was admitted to the Society of Artists in Antwerp, an unusual honor to one of his age.
Theatrical Crucifixions, the fleshy coarseness of Rubens which Vandyck tried to mitigate by making it leaner.
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