As anticipated, Dover replies:
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Thank you for your message asking for information regarding the cover of our "Oil Painting Techniques" book.
Unfortunately, there is no way to reconstruct the reasons why a certain picture was chosen for one of our covers. However, it is possible we did not have a good transparency of one of the author's paintings to work from.
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I say "as anticipated," because I once worked in editorial at a publishing company where a friend was the production editor for a college-level art overview text. Watching the decision-making process relating to the book's cover art was a bit like watching the grinding of sausage bits. (Poor productions values in the first run off the presses nearly cost jobs and certainly spoiled careers.) All editors involved -- and their story, should someone write in to ask about it -- have long since moved on.