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Excerpt from The Flemish, Dutch and German Schools of Painting After the very kind and flattering reception which the Italian Schools of Painting has met with from the public, it will not, perhaps, be necessary to bring forward much prefatory matter on the present occasion; since this short account of the great Northern Schools Is arranged and conducted on a similar plan, and intended, in some sort, as a continuation of the former work. One point, however, it may not be amiss to touch upon, but it is merely relative to matters of orthography. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.