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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issavage strength, of a Murillo when he paintedforcibly — we may easily conclude that we standbefore the chef-doeuvre of this youthful painter. Portraits of average strength are found fromJanssen van Ceulen, van der Heist, de Keyzer,Hanneman, Moreelse, and Netscher. Vermeer vanHaarlem has a landscape; Aert van der Neer abeautiful moonlight; Filips Koninck a landscapein Rembrandts panoramic style; Both, Murant,Frederik de Moucheron, and Lingelbach in theItalian manner. Salomo van Ruysdael gives a View of the Maas before Dordrecht; G. Berck-heyden, a city view; Job Berckheyden depicts theinterior of the old exchange in Amsterdam, nowdemolished; and Sorgh the marketplace in Rotter-dam. We find here marines by Willem van deVelde, Verschuer, Zeeman, and Ludolf Backhuy-zen. Dirk Santvoort has here genre, also Izaakvan Ostade, Metsu, and Brakenburgh; and a stilllife bears the name of J. D. de Heem. Rooms E and F are filled with modern pictures.Langendyk painted warlike scenes from the i8th
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AlA Xei5&en, TDltrecbt an& IRotterbam 369 century. Ary Schefifer has two large historical can-vases, which require appropriate legends to arouseinterest. L. Apol, Bosboom, and Hubert van Hoveare also represented. Room F contains characteris-tic works by Mesdag, Blommers, Mauve, Israels,Neuhuys, J. Maris, and others. The work of a few artists or rank, who are notrepresented in the principal galleries which we havevisited, as well as the work of painters seen else-where may still be found in the municipal build-ings of smaller cities. In Gouda, for instance^ we find a triptych byDirk Barents, his only sacred work extant, and amilitia group by Cornelis Ketel, the early grouppainter. We find there also a rare example byAnthonie Blockland, The Beheading of St.James, a work of art of great interest. Thisartist depicted also a Lords Supper, now inthe Dordrecht Museum. This last-named museum possesses two portraits,by Aert van Gelder; a fine portrait, by NicolaasMaes; and an excellent

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