Girl in a Green Gown

Meticulously weaving an analysis of the portrait with chapters devoted to political and social history

Fisun Guner, Metro

Hicks writes effortlessly, with a vast amount of information at her fingertips

Jerry Brotton, BBC History Magazine

Engaging

Gillian Tindal, Literary Review

I was bowled over... It is a book of page-turning vignettes

Daily Telegraph

Exploring the double portrait in revelatory detail, Hicks presents a truly inspiring picture of her own

The Times

The book has sent me back to the painting...with wider and more inquisitive eyes

Peter Conrad, Observer

An author who opens our eyes, deepens our understanding and makes us keen to look again

Frances Spalding, Daily Mail

This beautifully written book is a splendid testament to the intelligence, attention to detail, depth of research, and down to earth vision of a first rate scholar

Theodore K Rabb, Times Literary Supplement

Hicks tells a truly fascinating story about image and ownership, based on diligent, well-digested research

Vera Ryan, Irish Times

A brilliantly idiosyncratic investigation which alternates chapters internal to the picture (the fashions, the furniture, the oranges, the mirror) with chapters on its production and historical meanderings

Lynn Roberts, Tablet

There are still interesting things to be said about Van Eyck's great double portrait

Michael Glover, Independent, Books of the Year

Exploring the double-portrait image in often revelatory detail, Hicks presents a truly inspiring picture of her own

Erica Wagner, The Times, Books of the Year

No-one can write, and explain, like Hicks. Here her mastery is complete

Spectator

This impressive work of art historical scholarship is in every way as engaging as its subject

Peter Murray, Irish Examiner