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certainly the most superb one my weak eyes have ever rested
certainly the most superb one my weak eyes have ever rested
on. But is that picture cracked? Is there a flaw anywhere?
on. But is that picture cracked? Is there a flaw anywhere?
Is it possible
Is it possible that it was ever thrown out of a window of Whitehall
by the King, and then picked up and mended and "restored"
by Pomerantius? If all this is true, it must be easily
possible to test the truth of the story. However deftly the
fractures may have mended in 1535, it is impossible but that
in the lapse of three centuries, the back, at least of the
picture, should not show the marks of the repairs. But who
was the magician whose name I seem to have met with, and yet
cannot recall clearly enough to identify him? So wonderful
and incomparable adroit a "restorer" ought to be better known
than what seems to be his national name alone. Will some
specialist enlighten my darkness and delight his proud heart
by exposing my crass ignorance?
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Latest revision as of 14:44, 30 March 2020

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threw it out of the window; and the picture in the fall broke into three pieces; but, Pomerantius, then coming by, took it up, carried it home, and so put it together and mended the colours, that it is not to be discerned that it was ever broken."

        I am acquainted with but one portrait of Sir Thomas More

by Holbein, that could be spoken of in this way, and it is hardly conceivable that Roger North can be referring to any other picture than the supremely magnificent picture exhibited in the Winter Exhibition of 1881, and which, if it be not altogether the most superb portrait ever painted inEngland, is certainly the most superb one my weak eyes have ever rested on. But is that picture cracked? Is there a flaw anywhere? Is it possible that it was ever thrown out of a window of Whitehall by the King, and then picked up and mended and "restored" by Pomerantius? If all this is true, it must be easily possible to test the truth of the story. However deftly the fractures may have mended in 1535, it is impossible but that in the lapse of three centuries, the back, at least of the picture, should not show the marks of the repairs. But who was the magician whose name I seem to have met with, and yet cannot recall clearly enough to identify him? So wonderful and incomparable adroit a "restorer" ought to be better known than what seems to be his national name alone. Will some specialist enlighten my darkness and delight his proud heart by exposing my crass ignorance? [end of page]