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2. From 1885 the painting hung in the specially designed "Night Watch Gallery" new Rijksmuseum. There it was was fixed in a monumental, immovable frame between two columns in a pompously decorated gallery hung with theatrical draperies where – even worse – it was lit by skylights 
2. Everything was done the old-fashioned way from exposing the glass negatives in sunlight to using instinct rather than timers. Don's style was heavily influenced by the legendary Long Chin-San and his technique of layering negatives to create one composite image. 
2. The marquise de Grollier was a highly accomplished “amateur painter”, a term that in eighteenth-century France implied an elevated social class rather than a lack of seriousness or skill. 
2. St Valentine's remains inside the San Valentino Basilica in Terni, Umbria 
2 This is how the Amsterdam catholic painter Dirck Barendsz. saw him. The portrait was painted in William's lifetime, but I doubt the protestant leader sat for it. A calculating, cold man Barendsz shows, not the magnanimous leader Adriaen Key paints. 16th century spin doctors. 
