Abstract
This lavishly illustrated 420-page catalogue is an enormous improvement, in terms of production, on the catalogue of Dutch paintings in the Royal Collection written by the same author and published by the Cambridge University Press (CUP) in 1982. All the paintings, even a pair of modest landscapes catalogued as ‘anonymous eighteenth century’, are well illustrated in colour unlike the muddy black and whites that CUP provided. There are many comparative illustrations and expansive catalogue entries. It is, simply, a beautiful book and Royal Collection Publications is to be congratulated on the outstanding production values. ‘Later Flemish Paintings’ is a curious designation – it is intended, of course, to be distinguished from Lorne Campbell's Early Flemish Pictures – but is curiouser still when we realize that Van Dyck, the Flemish artist most closely associated with the Royal Collection, is absent. The stated reason for this is that Van Dyck's paintings in...
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