In this edition changes have been made in the numbering of the Venice
and Vienna Galleries, as well as of some minor collections, to
correspond to recent rehanging. Many other alterations have been
required by the breaking up of private collections. In several instances
it has been impossible to trace pictures to their new homes, and of such
the more important remain under the names of their former owners. To the
lists of painters have been added Beccaruzzi, Caprioli, Polidoro
Lanzani, Rocco Marconi, Andrea Schiavone, and Girolamo da Treviso,
artists important enough to be missed, but of merit so unequal that only
their more interesting works are here given. But the bulk of new
additions, amounting to a third as much again as was comprised in the
last edition, is of pictures in the various provincial galleries and
private collections of Great Britain, France, and Germany.
The author takes great pleasure in acknowledging his indebtedness to Mr.
Herbert F. Cook for invaluable aid in visiting some of the almost
numberless British collections.