To maintain this expensive establishment the painter was obliged to devote his mornings to hard work in his studio. The nights were spent in banquets and revelry. Naturally his health gave way under the strain of this double life. While he still cherished ambitious projects for greater works of art, he sickened and died in London at the age of forty-two.
Two years before this he had married an English lady, Mary Ruthven, and they had one child, a daughter.
Our frontispiece is a detail of a double portrait representing, in half-length figures, the painter and a patron, John Digby, Earl of Bristol.
PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY OF PROPER NAMES AND FOREIGN WORDS
The Diacritical Marks given are those found in the latest edition of Webster's International Dictionary.
A Dash (¯) above the vowel denotes the long sound, as in fāte, ēve, tīme, nōte, ūse. A Dash and a Dot (-̇) above the vowel denote the same sound, less prolonged. A Curve (˘) above the vowel denotes the short sound, as in ădd, ĕnd, ĭll, ŏdd, ŭp.
A Dot ( ̇) above the vowel a denotes the obscure sound of a in pȧst, ȧbāte, Amĕricȧ.
A Double Dot (¨) above the vowel a denotes the broad sound of a in fäther, älms.
A Double Dot (..) below the vowel a denotes the sound of a in ba̤ll.
A Wave (~) above the vowel e denotes the sound of e in hẽr.
A Circumflex Accent (^) above the vowel o denotes the sound of o in bôrn.
A dot (.) below the vowel u denotes the sound of u in the French language.
N indicates that the preceding vowel has the French nasal tone.
G and K denote the guttural sound of ch in the German language.
Biographie Nationale (bḗ-ṓ-grä-fē' nä-sḗ-ṓ-näl').
Honi soit qui mal y pense (ŏn-ē' swä kē mäl ē päNs).
Médicis, Marie de (mä-rē' dẽ mā̇-dḗ-sēs').
Parliamentarians (pär-lĭ-mĕn-tā'rī-ȧnz).
Pellegrino, Monte (mōn'tā̇ pĕl-lā̇-grē'-nō).
Richardot, Jean Grusset (zhäN grụs-sā' rē-shär-dō').
Sicilians (sĭ-sĭl'ĭ-ȧnz or sĭ-sĭl'yȧnz).
Wandesford, Rowland (wŏnz'fo̯rd rō'lȧnd).
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Van Dyck, by Estelle M. Hurll