Accompanying an exhibition at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts only the second exhibition ever devoted to the artist this noteworthy publication considers De Beers work and career working methods and traces the history of De Beers paintings in British collections. The Antwerp painter Jan de Beer c.1475152728 was highly esteemed in his lifetime and still famous a couple of generations after his death but then fell into oblivion until the early twentieth century. Only recently have his achie