Excerpt from The Art of Hans Heysen: Special Number of Art in Australia<br><br>Probably no one is better acquainted with Heysen as an artist or more competent to write upon his work than Lionel Lindsay, to whom we entrusted the critical introduction to this book. Mr. Lind say is a practising artist in water-colour and other media, who is also well acquainted with the masterpieces of the old world and with the theories of the principal art critics. When asked to write the intro~ duction, he made a special visit to Ambleside in order to discuss with Heysen the latter's methods and aims. We have to thank him for his valuable article.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.