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Jack Miamensis's avatar

Art history nerd alert: Richardson's face is much better handled than his clothing, quite probably because the latter was done by studio help or a so-called "drapery painter" employed by Richardson, as was common practice at the time. It was routinely done by Kneller, the leading portraitist in England between the death of Lely (1680) and his own (1723), who ran a veritable portrait factory.

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SlowlyReading's avatar

Thank God for Dissident Muse Journal.

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