Studio: international art (81.1921)

fitfully amidst'the howling of a tempest. II Greco's
style is altogether peculiar and indescribable."

Of the ten works assigned to Velazquez,
five have been brought from Spain for
the exhibition, while the others belong
to English collections, and three of them
have been exhibited before in London;
while as to two, there are, as mentioned
above, some doubts as to their authenticity.
Though hardly so representative as the El
Greco group, the selection contains a
superb example of the master's painting,
the portrait of Juan de Pareja, Painter,
belonging to the Earl of Radnor, and a
scarcely inferior work, the portrait of
An Unknown Gentleman, from the Duke

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of Wellington's collection, as well as the
painter's portrait of himself lent by the
Fine Art Museum, Valencia, and said
to be the most poetical of the portraits
which Velazquez painted of himself.
Among his other paintings The Cook (Mr.
Otto Beit's collection), an early work,
painted when he was a youth of nineteen,
is of great interest as a study of still life.
There does not appear to be any reference
to this particular work in Beruete's
treatise published in English in 1906,
but it is evidently one of several paintings
of a somewhat similar character executed
while Velizquez was studying under his
future father-in-law, Francisco Pacheco,