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Title: How to show pictures to children
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924
Subjects: Art -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Boston, New York Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image:
ures of her little daugh-
ter. The Mother and Daughter in the Louvre is a fine
and deservedly popular work.
The child portraiture of Van Dyck is always sincere
and serious, but the posing and grouping are not
uniformly natural. The oft-repeated children of
Charles I stand in rather stiff and uncompromising
rows, but any such faults are forgotten for the splen-
did artistic qualities of the work. The heads are
beautifully done and make complete separate pic-
tures, particularly Prince Charles, and the inimitable
"Baby James," the Duke of York, in his little bonnet.
Princess Mary is a bit too prim to be really childlike.
My own favorites among Van Dyck's child figures
belong to the earlier periods when his inspiration had
not lost its freshness, like the White Boy of the Dur-
azzo Palace in Genoa, souvenir of his youthful Italian
journey, and Richardot and his son,¹ from the Flemish
groups. The child portraits of Cornelis de Vos should

¹ An illustration in the volume on Van Dyck in the Riverside Art
Series.
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Painted by Van Dyck.
John Andrews & Son Sc.

CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES

Royal Gallery, Turin

PICTURES OF CHILDREN 107

be classed with those of Van Dyck, whose contem-
porary he was, and whose skill he closely rivaled.
They represent his own engaging little daughters.
The Dutch schools of the same day furnish us many
valuable examples of the subtle art of child portrait-
ure. It was a fashion there for well-to-do merchants
to have group pictures painted of the entire family.
From this custom we see in the galleries a wonderful
array of these pictures showing well the solidarity of
the Dutch home life. It goes without saying that
Dutch children are always chubby and rosy, and the
soberness of their costume gives them an air of quaint
gravity. Besides the more common or typical works,
we have a few priceless gems which every child-lover
values.
It was the glory of the English eighteenth-century
art to develop the beauty of woman
hood and child-hood, and from this school came for

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