A powerful and illuminating biography - the first in English for two generations - of one of the most popular painters of all time.
Helen Langdon was born in Yorkshire. She has worked for the education department at the National Gallery, British Museum and National Portrait Gallery. Her books include studies of Salvator Rosa and Claude Lorrain, she was editor of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque sections of the Macmillian Dictionary of Art. She Lives in London.
"A sensational achievement, easily the most memorable book yet
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*Literary Review*
"A beautifully written book"
*Daily Mail*
"An exemplary life...her book has a page-turning quality more
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*Sunday Telegraph*
"A subtle, balanced, impeccably researched biography...a
sympathetic yet scholarly analysis"
*Art Quarterly*
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