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London : South Kensington Museum, 1874."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Owens, Susan, <u>The Art of Drawing British Masters and Methods since 1600</u>, V&A Publishing, London, 2013, p. 43, fig. 24"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Susan Barnes, Nora De Poorter, Oliver Millar and Horst Vey, <u>Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings</u> (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004), no. IV.15, pp.439-440 (p.440)."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Malcolm Rogers, 'Van Dyck's Portrait of Lord George Stuart, Seignuer d'Aubigny, and some related works', in <u>Van Dyck 350: Studies in the History of Art, 46</u>, ed. by Susan J. Barnes and Arthur K. 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