Talk:Paul van Somer I

Somewhat cobbled together, I'm afraid

I put this page together today because I felt we ought to have an entry for an artist who was the main Jacobean royal painter, occupying a position once held by Holbein and later by van Dyck, though van Somer is markedly the inferior of those geniuses, and I would make no case for the quality of his art (except perhaps for the portrait of King James in front of the banqueting house, looking like a cross between a mummer and a clown, which I do think is a marvellous and revealing painting).

It soon became clear to me why no one had ever made a page on this artist: there really seems to be so little written about him and no real assessment of his oeuvre that I can find. If someone has something like that, I hope they will add fuller information to this article. I was forced to resort to cobbling together stray pieces of unconnected information from a random collection of books, and I don't think they coalesce as a coherent page about van Somer. But still, it is a start, and better than nothing. qp10qp 02:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Looks fine. Nice to find out why he was "I". Carcharoth 09:09, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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Rated B-class due to assertion by the primary author that a majority of the available sources have been used here. Carcharoth 09:10, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

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