Note 42 to Chapter 4 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
On James's use of Bronzino, see Miriam Allott, "The Bronzino Portrait in The Wings of the Dove," Modern Language Notes, 68 (1953), 23-25; Winner, Henry James and the Visual Arts, pp. 81-85;and Meyers, Painting and the Novel, pp. 19-25. Allott's identification of Lord Mark's Bronzino with the Uffizi portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi is not universally accepted; for another suggestion, see Richards, "Henry James's Use of the Visual Arts," pp. 131-34.
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