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Excerpt from Velasquez
Studio to enter the service of Philip IV. We shall find that all but a bare percentage of his work was com missioned by the King, and we need not doubt that the royal permission was obtained for any other, just as it had to be for his two journeys to Italy. The greatest wonder is that under such restraint he should have preserved wholly inviolate his artistic indepen dence. Even if his choice of subject was restricted, his method of dealing with it was absolutely his own, and the obvious truth of all that he put on to canvas, if it is but the least of the qualities that have made him famous, is not the less remarkable. If one had to sum up his career and his art in a sentence it might be done by describing him as a Court painter.
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