Crossword-Solution: VELASQUEZ 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 30

The several schools of the old masters were represented by a Madonna of Raphael, a Virgin of Leonardo da Vinci, a nymph of Corregio, a woman of Titan, an Adoration of Veronese, an Assumption of Murillo, a portrait of Holbein, a monk of Velasquez, a martyr of Ribera, a fair of Rubens, two Flemish landscapes of Teniers, three little “genre” pictures of Gerard Dow, Metsu, and Paul Potter, two specimens of Géricault and Prudhon, and some sea-pieces of Backhuysen and Vernet.

The works of no other painter give me the same sensation of quivering vitality, except the Velasquez in the Madrid Gallery and, perhaps, Sargent at his best; and one feels all through the American painter’s work the influence of his first and only master.

From Provence he had drifted down to Spain, eager to see Velasquez at Madrid, and thence he had gone to Toledo.

The one thing in it that held me a pleased spectator was the graceful costume of a certain player who looked like a fine old portrait--by Vandyke or Velasquez, let us say--that had come to life and kicked off its tarnished frame.

Then at last he told me that that frame had contained one of the rarest and most valuable pictures in England--in the world--an original Velasquez.