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During London Art Week, 3 – 10 July 2015, a celebration of the exceptional and unparalleled expertise available within the galleries of Mayfair and St. James’s, The Weiss Gallery, 59 Jermyn Street will exhibit two distinct groups of work. The first is a remarkable collection of seven portraits by Frans Pourbus the Younger that were first shown together to great acclaim at TEFAF in March. The collection showcases Pourbus’ extraordinary talent and artistic development, works from the very first years of his career in the early 1590s as painter of the merchant class, through the first two decades of the 17th century as portraitist of choice for the royal and ducal families of the Hapsburgs, Gonzagas, Medici and Bourbons. Pourbus’ work can be seen as a bridge between the great Netherlandish tradition of

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