Excerpt from Anthony Van Dyck: A Further Study Arts, but the prudish ignorance and prejudice which pre vailed so strongly at certain times during the nineteenth century impeded for too long a time any proper concep tion of the true dimensions of his vast genius. Van Dyck, on the other hand, could offend no drawing-room suscep tibilities, and his name was a comfortable cloak for num berless mediocre productions of his school and period. Jordaens hardly came within the purview of the nineteenth century at all. It was a harder task to Convince the public mind that Jordaens, like Frans Hals, was a great and true artist in paint, and that if he painted the somewhat coarse and exuberant life of his time and his home, he was as much entitled to do this as the artists of the nineteenth century were to depict the elegant inanities and affecta tions of their own surroundings. 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.