Identifier: gri_33125008253409 (find matches)
Title: A hand-book for young painters
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859 Clarke, Harriet Ludlow, d. 1866 Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853 Cooper, James Davis, 1823-1904 Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903 Scharf, George, 1788-1860 Cozens, John Robert, 1752-1797 Girtin, Thomas, 1775-1802
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ON PORTRAIT. 283 played by Velasquez, in his portrait picture of The Surrender of Breda. The Governor of the town is presenting its keys to the Marquis Spinola, who (hat in hand) neither takes them, nor allows his late antagonist to kneel. But, laying his hp, and gently on his shoulder, he seems to say, fortune has favoured me, but our cases might have been reversed. To paint such an act of generous courtesy was worthy of a contemporary of Cervantes. It is not, however, in the choice of the subject, but in the manner in which he has brought the scene before our eyes, that the genius and mind of Velasquez are shown. The cordial unaffected bearing of the conqueror could only have been represented by as thorough a gentleman as himself. I know this picture but from copies. Mr. Ford says of the original, Never were knights, soldiers, or national character better painted, or the heavy Fleming, the intellectual Italian, and the proud Spaniard more nicely marked, even to their boots and breeches; the lanc

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