Identifier: artofnetherlandg00prey (find matches)
Title: The art of the Netherland galleries : being a history of the Dutch school of painting illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in the many galleries
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Preyer, David C. (David Charles), 1861-1913
Subjects: Art museums Painting
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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ris, although the other Hague masters had great influence over him. He has developed into a puissant master, steadily progressing since as a boy of sixteen he came to the Hague Academy with the best composition ever submitted by an aspirant. It was a canvas with galloping dragoons, that was wonderful in its action and realism —you could see the dust fly. Later he devoted himself to the tram-car horse, and then to the picturesque scenes of newly laid-out streets with the inevitable heavy dray-horses carting the building materials, or to dock and shipyard views with their graphic portrayal of laborious activity. His powerful, passionate colour scheme, and his nervous, virile drawing make him one of the strongest cha-acters of the present school — he may be called the Dutch Brangwyn. {{:nl:Antoon Derkinderen|A. J. der Kinderen}} (born 1859) shows his training in the Brussels Academy by the classicism of his figure compositions. Paul Rink (1860-1903) won in 1887 at the Am-sterdam Academy the ** Prix de Rome, which
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JAN STEEN ST. NICHOLAS CELEBRATION Plate XXVI (See page 260) Ryks Museum Amsterdam i Xtbe fHf Centuri? Dutcb painters 201 enabled him to travel some years in Italy, Spain and Algeria. At first he was impressed with the symbolic tendency of his time, but his original, realistic talent took the upper hand, and his cultured, refined nature enabled him to produce many canvases full of emotional feeling. Much was expected of him when in his forty-third year he died suddenly. W. B. Tholen (born 1860), a pupil of Gabriel, has produced many landscapes, broadly painted and full of atmosphere. Willem Witsen (born i860) followed the Gymnasium of Amsterdam for a few years, but then turned to art. After establishing an enviable reputation as an etcher, he took up painting in oil and has produced several canvases, especially winterviews, in which the values of snow are admirably given. Jan Toorop was born the same year in Java. His years of adolescence were spent in that East Indian paradise, and his interco

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