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Proclaiming A Genius

Gregory Martin VAN DYCK PAINTINGS by Arthur K. Wheelock Thames & Hudson, £48, pp.384 T he recent loan exhibition of paintings and oil sketches by Anthony van Dyck at the......

Looking After A Few Poor Bastards

Sara Maitland LOVE IN THE TIME OF VICTORIA by Francoise Barret-Duerocq, translated by John Howe Verso, £19.95, pp. 225 P eople have very peculiar ideas about `the poor,'......