THE following pages were designed to contain the life of Velazquez, as narrated in the Annals of the Artists of Spain (8vo. London, 1848), with such additions as its re-publication in a separate form seemed to require, and as later travel and reading have enabled me to supply. In the execution of this design, however, the work has been nearly re-written. I hope that it may not have been increased in bulk without being also somewhat improved in quality. The catalogue of prints is founded on a list of those in my own collection, and in the still larger collection of my friend, Mr. Charles b |