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heading in green ink: Comparison with the Dulwich Portrait.

symbol in green ink: Ŧ In spite of the history and ancestry of the Dulwich portrait, of the praises of it made by such critics as Waagen and Burger-Shore, of the documents which made mention of this work, and in spite of the respect which the Assertions of the learned Professor Justi Lair always merited, I could never persuade myself that such a portrait was a genuine Velasquez. I saw it, for the first time in 1873, and already, since 1890, knowing how many antecedents, documents and praises were adjudicated to it by the criticism, repeated my visits to Dulwich, returning from them more convinced each time that it was only a fine copy made by Mazo from the original which had

symbol in green ink: Ŧ From Beruete.

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