The Vanishing Velázquez
Page 30
The Apotheosis of the Duke of Buckingham 93
San Jeronimo’s Church, Madrid 115
San Juan Bautista Church, Madrid 267
Sánchez, Alfonso Pérez 86
Sandford, Erskine Douglas 138, 142, 143, 146, 147, 151
Sayers, Tom 209
Schirmer’s music store, Broadway 210
Scribner, Charles 208–9
Seguier, William 53–4, 144
Seville, Andalusia 23, 26, 27, 29, 32, 35, 48, 56, 58, 111, 119, 182, 219
Shakespeare, William 6, 34, 37, 132, 239
Hamlet 97, 110, 179, 250
King Lear 166
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A 112
Othello 169
Tempest, The 226
Shelley, Mary 132
Shepperson, Matthew 201–2
signatures 187–90
Silenus 80
Silva, João Rodrigues da 23
Simonds’ Bank, Reading 37, 232, 234
Sistine Chapel, Vatican 159
sketches 47–8, 103–4, 105; see also bosquexo
slavery 33, 119, 169–70, 191
Smith, M. Crosby 252, 255
Snare, Edward 134, 214–16, 232–5
Snare, Howard 232
Snare, Isabella 15, 22, 39, 130, 134–5, 177–8, 207, 210, 230–3, 235
Snare, Jessie 232
Snare, John 7–8, 11, 13–22, 25–6, 34, 37–43, 46, 48–50, 51–2, 61, 65–7, 69–73, 74, 77–8, 91–2, 94, 97, 98–105, 117, 125–35, 137–56, 174–82, 184–5, 199, 201, 202, 205–18, 230–1, 233, 234, 237–8, 245, 246–8, 258–9
Snare, Margaret 232
Society of Antiquaries, Edinburgh 125
Society of Painters in Watercolour 69
Souter, William 128, 153
Spackman, Charles 139–41, 142
Spearman, Major 243
Spencer, George John, 2nd Earl Spencer 9
Spinola, Ambrogio 158, 199
Stafford House, Bloomsbury 74
Stanley’s Rooms, Mayfair 68
Stirling Maxwell, William 76, 78–80, 86, 91, 103, 104–5, 122, 137, 184, 246, 258
Annals of the Artists of Spain 78–80, 86, 103, 184
Velázquez and His Works 104–5
Stowe House, Buckinghamshire 130, 216
Stuyvesant Institute, New York 173, 174, 178, 179–82, 180, 184–5, 207–8, 210, 214, 217
Sutherland, Duke of see Leveson-Gower, George
Tait, James 145
Tait’s New Royal Hotel, Edinburgh 125–7, 130, 131, 139, 144–5, 152
talbotypes 78, 239
Taylor, Elizabeth 261
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson 125
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista 183
Times, The 69–70, 102, 152, 209, 233
Tintoretto 45, 158, 162
Titian 30, 45, 68, 93, 112, 158, 162, 166, 179, 183, 198, 211, 261
Penitent Magdalene in the Wilderness 183
Venus 179
Tom Thumb 69, 69, 179, 181
Torre de la Parada, Fuencarral-El Pardo 86–7, 88
Trionfi, Flaminia 163, 166, 168
Turner, Joseph Mallord William 69
Twain, Mark 207, 211
Twyford Hall, Norfolk 29
typography 237
Tyre, Archbishop of 226
Urban VIII, Pope 31, 45
Valdés, Fernando de 126, 188–90, 189, 244
Valladolid, Pablo de 107–10, 117, 118–19, 123
Vallecas, Madrid 108
Van der Helst, Bartholomeus 50
Van Dyck, Anthony 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22, 39, 41, 42, 49–50, 65, 72, 89, 95, 96, 99, 102, 140, 147, 150, 195, 198–9, 202, 211, 241–6, 252, 257, 258, 265
Charles I of England 243
Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson 90
Triple portrait of Charles I 241–2
Van Eyck, Jan 53, 91, 224
Arnolfini Portrait, The 53, 91, 224
Van Gogh, Vincent 187
Vega, Lope de 60, 112
Midsummer’s Night 112
Velazquez, Antonio 32, 168
Velázquez, Diego
birth and baptism 23;
begins studies under Francisco de Pacheco 23;
marries Juana de Pacheco 24, 32–3;
birth of Francisca 32;
birth and death of Ignacia 32;
given royal salary 30–1, 266;
unpaints portrait of Philip IV after criticism 31, 34–5, 190;
hired as royal painter to Philip IV 24;
wins painting contest set by Philip IV with The Expulsion of the Moors from Spain 31–2, 262;
death of Fonseca;
buys back The Waterseller of Seville 36, 61;
first trip to Italy 24, 158–61, 190;
meets Ambrogio Spinola on voyage to Venice 158;
attends royal bullfight 61;
second trip to Italy 24, 32, 161, 162–72;
frees Juan de Pareja 119, 171–2;
birth of Antonio 32, 168;
appointed King’s High Chamberlain 24, 60, 220;
refused permission to travel abroad 220;
death of Francisca 32;
elected Knight of Santiago 224;
appears in theatrical staging of Franco-Spanish truce 226;
death 226, 267
Works:
Adoration of the Magi, The 120
Aesop 87, 191–2, 221, 264
Archbishop Fernando de Valdés 126, 188–90, 189, 244
Astronomer, The see Democritus
Baltasar Carlos as a Hunter 158
Baltasar Carlos in the Riding School 59–60, 60, 73, 74, 84, 115–16
Baltasar Carlos with a Dwarf 79
Boar Hunt, The 73, 144, 150
Christ in the House of Mary and Martha 20, 28–9, 28, 222, 224
Count-Duke Olivares 58, 265
Democritus 119
Disciples at Emmaus, The 228
Don Diego de Acedo, The 88–9, 89
Don John of Austria, The 117–18, 118, 242
Equestrian Portrait of Count-Duke of Olivares 58, 59, 190, 194
Equestrian Portrait of Philip III 113
Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV—1623 31, 34–5
Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV—1635 190
Expulsion of the Moors from Spain, The 31–2, 262
Fable of Arachne, The see Spinners, The
Ferdinando Brandani 166–8, 167
Francesco Barberini 166
Francisco Lezcano 81–3, 88, 117
Francisco de Quevedo 112
Geographer, The see Democritus
Jester Calabazas, The 194
Juan de Pareja 34, 74, 79, 184, 195, 199, 262
Luis de Góngora 194
Mariana of Austria 229
Mars Resting 221, 264, 266
Meninas, Las (Velázquez) 1–6, 9, 11, 24–5, 29, 34, 40–1, 43, 48, 51, 54–5, 60, 61, 62, 74, 75–6, 80, 85, 103, 115, 116, 119, 121, 122, 184, 201, 206, 219, 220, 222, 223, 224–6, 262–3, 264, 267–8
Old Woman Frying Eggs, An 26–7, 27, 264
Pablo de Valladolid 107–11, 117, 118–19, 123
Philip IV in Fraga 121, 174, 199
Philip IV of Spain—1623–24 30–1, 31
Philip IV of Spain—c. 1623 57
Philip IV of Spain—c. 1653–56 265–6, 266
Philip IV in Brown and Silver 188, 189, 190, 254
Pope’s Barber, The 166–8
Pope Innocent X 34, 79, 163–5, 265
Portrait of a Man—c. 1630–35 195–200, 201, 202, 245, 255
Portrait of a Man—c. 1631–34 201–3
Portrait of a Man, possibly Nieto 51–6, 62–3, 89
Portrait of Camillo Astalli 165, 194
Portrait of Camillo Massimi 76–7
Portrait of Flaminia Trionfi 163, 166
Portrait of Girolamo Bibaldo 166
Portrait of Juan de Fonseca 30
Portrait of Olimpia Maidalchini 166
Portrait of P
rince Charles 7–8, 11, 13, 16–22, 30, 38–50, 65–7, 69–73, 77–8, 91–105, 125–30, 137–56, 173–81, 184–5, 205, 207–8, 209–18, 230–5, 237–48, 249–60
Portrait of the Buffoon “Redbeard’ 117
“Rokeby Venus, The” 74, 85, 221–2, 222, 224, 266
Sebastián de Morra 83–5, 88
Sense of Taste, The 119
Spinners, The 222–3
Surrender of Breda, The 158, 190, 196, 199, 221
Sibyl, A 120, 194
Toilet of Venus, The see Rokeby Venus
View of the Gardens of the Villa Medici 103, 159–62, 169
Waterseller of Seville, The 30, 35–6, 48, 53, 58, 61, 62, 79
Velázquez, Jerónima 23
Velazquez y Pacheco, Francisca 32, 119
Velazquez y Pacheco, Ignacia 32
Vermeer, Johannes 228, 229
Veronese, Paolo 158, 162
Victoria and Albert Museum, London 93, 96, 216
Villa Medici, Rome 103, 159–61
Villiers, George, 1st Duke of Buckingham 43–4, 92, 93–4, 95, 98–9, 104, 250, 256,
Villiers, Katherine, Duchess of Buckingham 94
Vitoria, Battle of (1813) 48, 52–3, 62, 144, 228
Walcott, Mackenzie 97
Memorials of Westminster 97
Walpole, Robert 79
Walton, Isaac 102
Waterloo Gallery, Apsley House 52, 61–3
Waterloo, Battle of (1815) 53, 54, 61, 68
Watteau, Jean-Antoine 180, 183
Webb, William 42, 131–2
Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington 43, 48, 52–3, 61–2, 70, 133
West, Benjamin 53–4, 179, 207
Death on a Pale Horse 179, 180
West, James 125–8, 144–5, 177
Westminster, Marquess of see Grosvenor, Robert
Wharton, Edith 208
Whitman, Walt 181, 191, 192, 207
Widdrington, Samuel Edward 80, 85
Wildenstein, Daniel 214
Wilkie, David 126, 189
Williams, Bossom 232, 233
Williams, Isabella see Snare, Isabella
Williams, Thomas 232
Willis’s Rooms, St James’s Square 233
Wilson, Jacob 143–4, 153
Wilson, John 68
Windsor Castle, Berkshire 257
Wordsworth, William 250
X-rays 40–1, 119, 147, 165, 202–3, 224, 229
York House, Strand 92, 93–4, 99, 256
Young, George 138–9, 142, 147, 150, 176
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Names: Cumming, Laura, author. Title: The vanishing Velázquez : a 19th-century bookseller’s obsession with a lost masterpiece / by Laura Cumming.
Description: New York : Scribner, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015040220| ISBN 9781476762180 (trade paper) | ISBN 9781476762159 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781476762166 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Snare, John—Knowledge—Art. | Booksellers and bookselling—England—Reading. | Velázquez, Diego, 1599–1660—Appreciation. | Portrait painting—Attribution.
Classification: LCC Z325.S667 C86 2016 | DDC 759.6—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015040220
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