Category: Travel Writing
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=Other Painters in the Same Group.=--In this group also we might include Gerrit Claes Bleecker (d. 1656), whose work recalls Elzheimer and his followers. His Saul on the Road to...
23. Part 23=Other Portraits of Interest.=--Other portraits of interest are Adriaen Backer's Portrait of a Man; Hendrik Berckman's Portrait of Admiral Adriaen van Trappen; Portrait of Himse...
13. Part 13=His Picture of The Alchemist.=--Moreover, he has a sound comprehension of chiaroscuro, as may be seen here in his picture The Alchemist. He casts a shadow over the skeleton fis...
16. Part 16=C. Dusart, Better in some Respects than his Master.=--Cornelis Dusart (1660-1704) adopted his master's (Ostade) style without servile imitation. He was a minute observer of det...
6. Part 6=His Greatness as a Marine Painter.=--"There is no question that Willem van de Velde the younger is the greatest marine painter of the whole Dutch school. His untiring study of...
10. Part 10=Two Pictures by Beijeren, and Two by Seghers.=--Another famous Flowers is that by Abraham van Beijeren (1620 or 1621-75), which was acquired at the Van Pappelendam sale in Amst...
11. Part 11In 1838 many of the modern pictures were transferred to the Paviljoen Welgelegen, which became, therefore, a gallery of the works of living painters of the Netherlands; and this...
22. Part 22"There is no eater so cloyed, no gourmet so _blase_, who would not have his appetite restored by the sight of one of De Heem's pictures; for here everything is exquisite, both t...
15. Part 15The picture by this artist in the Rijks has for its subject a silver vase, of elegant form, and a porcelain dish filled with oranges and lemons. The objects are tastefully arran...
8. Part 8=Two Fine Portraits by F. van Mieris.=--Frans van Mieris (1635-81) reached the highest rung of art in his portraits, of which The Hague Gallery possesses two fine examples. One...
21. Part 21=A Dutch Landscape by Van Os.=--Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os has a landscape. The scene is in Guelderland. Trees and a wheat field occupy the background and middle distance;...
19. Part 19A similar movement took place in landscape-painting. The most important landscape-artists in the first half of the nineteenth century were Kobell, Koekkoek, and Schelfhout. Thei...
14. Part 14His brother, Pieter Wouwermans (1623-82), is represented by two works: Assault on the Town of Koevorden, 1672, and The Hunting Party. His works have frequently been mistaken for...
3. Part 3"With the exception of Rembrandt, I do not know of a single Dutch painter, not even Van der Helst (who painted such great canvases), who would not have belittled his picture, ei...
9. Part 9=Blanc on Troost's Style.=--"What we admire in him to-day is the talent of the painter properly so-called, the art of enlightening and grouping his figures and placing them on t...
24. Part 24Golgotha represents the Crucifixion. The Cross, bearing the livid figure of Christ, is in the foreground, and beside it stand the Virgin on the left and St. John on the right. T...
4. Part 4=Dutch Artists who migrated to Rome.=--Bartholomeus Breenborch (1599-1659) was another member of that band of artists who at the beginning of the seventeenth century deserted th...
2. Part 2=Paul Potter's Bull.=--The picture represents an enormous black and white bull standing on a hillock beneath two trees. Beneath the trees lie a cow, a sheep, and a lamb, and beh...
18. Part 18=His Favorite Themes.=--"Here Mauve found some of his most important and favorite themes, such as poor cots built in or near the downs, where slender, poorly nurtured women tend...
7. Part 7=Description of Peasants in an Inn.=--"Peasants in an Inn was painted in 1662; but it exhibits all the qualities of Ostade's best work. The figures are drawn true to life. Very...
12. Part 12=A Portrait Group by Rembrandt, and another by Van der Helst.=--"A Frieze over one of the doors in chiaroscuro by De Witt, is not only one of the best deceptions I have seen, bu...
5. Part 5=His Growth toward Composition.=--"Gradually his subjects become more 'composed,' but in the best sense of the word. Only occasionally does he wander away, as, for instance, in...
17. Part 17=A Fine Example of his Powers.=--The Lady at the Clavecin is a splendid example of the powers of this artist who was almost as fond of making musical instruments important featu...
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