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Dulwich Picture Gallery was founded in 1811. Its importance today lies in its outstanding collection of 17th- and 18th-century paintings, and in the building, designed by Sir John Soane. This is the first fully illustrated catalogue of the entire collection of some 650 paintings, including Rembrandt's `Girl at a Window', Rubens's `Venus, Mars and Cupid', Poussin's `Triumph of David' and Murillo's `Flower Girl'.

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Dulwich would be merely a quiet South London suburb were it not for its public school and the luminous presence of the oldest public art gallery in Britain. But the Dulwich Picture Gallery is not only the oldest, it was for a long time the greatest, easily overshadowing the adolescent National Gallery, and it remains extraordinary. Even its history is fascinating, its origins being part of the bequest of the Elizabethan actor-manager, Thomas Alleyn - a 'College of God's Gift'. It later became the reluctant beneficary, (the donor's reluctance, not the Gallery's) of a magnificent collection assembled for the King of Poland. The glory of this book is in its 656 illustrations, with the finest works, (Gainsboroughs, Poussins, Rembrandts, Murillos) in colour. The commentary on each picture provides a brief artist's biography with just sufficient interpretation to enable us to enjoy it intelligently. This is a beautiful book that will repay repeated study. (Kirkus UK)

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