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A Brush With Grandeur:
Philip Alexius de László
(1869-1937)


See John Howard Sanden's
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     Bouguereau, Bunker,
     Delaroche, Duveneck, Fechin,
     Frieseke, Gutmann, Millais,
     Renoir, Rose, Sorolla, G.F. Watts
---------Artists ca. pre-1800---------
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F E A T U R E S



Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Present
by Virgil Elliott


The Art of Portrait Drawing

by Joy Thomas


Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light in Oil, Pastel & Watercolor
by Chris Saper



A Collection of
Portraits by Portrait
Brokers of America



William Merritt Chase: Portraits in Oil
by Ronald G. Pisano


Lilla Cabot Perry:
An American Impressionist
by Meredith Martindale


Fabric of Vision

by Anne Hollander


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