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“Portrait of a Man in a Slouch Hat” (c1660) has no such grandeur; nevertheless the anonymous character, whose mischievous eyes and smile shine from under the curved sweep of a colossal floppy hat, mesmerises. Painted very broadly, white collar, cuff, strands of gold hair abbreviated in a few dashing strokes, the picture looks like a Manet.'

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