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SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK (1599-1641) CANEVARI Canvas, 39 inches by 51 inches THREE-QUARTER length oval, nearly full face. Standing by the side of a pedestal on which rests a letter and an open book with a closed volume on top of it. Dressed in black with white collar and cuffs, his left arm hangs by his side, while his right rests on a closed volume, on back of which are written the words: "Hippocor Op." The directions on letter disclose the name of the sitter, "Canevari." To the left a red velvet curtain. Demetrio Canevari, physician, was born at Genoa, in 1559, and died in Rome, 1625. Distinguished both as physician and writer, he published half a dozen scientific works in Latin. Although occupying the dignity of physician-in-ordinary to Pope Urbain VII., he was accused of a sordid avarice that restricted his expenditures to his collection of books, which became celebrated. The portrait was painted for the Lomellini family and comes from the Cattaneo Palace, Genoa. It was exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1910. This is one of the famous paintings by Van Dyck which hung for generations in the Cattaneo Palace. The Italian Government sought to prevent their removal from Italy, but found that this collection was exempt from the operation of the law which forbade the exportation of works of art. 13 GS