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London and its environs, including excursions to Brighton, the Isle of Wight, etc. handbook for travellers

(1878)

p. 156

140 14. NATIONAL GALLERY.
17th cent.), Flowers; 991. Ruysdael, Broken tree; :iT018. Claude,
Classical landscape, dated 1673; 939. Canaletto, Piazzetta of St.
Mark, A'enice ; 986. Ruysdael, Watermills, also a favourite subject
of Ilobbema; 981. W. van de Velde, Storm at sea, dated London,
1673; *962. A. Cuyp, Cattle and figures, 'a careful, transparent,
and powerful picture'; 965. Van der Capelle, River-scene with state
barge, dated 1650; 1007. Peter Wouverman (brother of Philip;
formerly ascribed to Jan AVils), Rocky landscape: 928. Antonio
Pollajuolo (early Florentine Renaissance, d. 1488), Apollo and
Daphne; 929. After Raphael, Madonna and Child, ancient copy of
the Madonna of the Bridgewater collection; 986. Hobbema, Castle
in a rocky landscape; *980. VV. van de Velde, Calm, vessels salut¬
ing; 1011. Gemzales Coques (Antwerp, the 'Little A'an Dyck'; d.
1684), Portrait of a lady; 947. Canaletto, Eton College in 1746,
with the Thames in the foreground.
Room XII. Dutch and Flemish Schools. Besides works of
Rubens and Van Dyck, the chiefs of the Flemish school of the
17th cent., this room contains good examples of Rembrandt, their
great Dutch contemporary, principally of his later period. His
pupils, N. Alaas and P. deHooghe. are also well represented. The
small pictures by Flemish masters of the loth cent., though
neither usually of the first class, nor always to be attributed to the
painters whose names they bear, are yet of great interest, as afford¬
ing a varied survey of the realistic manner of the school.
To the left: 211. Jan van Huchtenburg (Dutch battle painter,
d. 1733), Battle; *805. Teniers the Younger, Old woman peeling
a pear; 487. Peter Paul Rubens (A. 1640), Apotheosis of AVilliam
the Taciturn, small coloured sketch^for a picture now in the pos¬
session of the F'arl of Jersey.
*S96. Gerard Terburg (Deventer, the greatest Dutch painter of
conversation pieces; d. 1681), Peace of Minister.
'This picture represents the Plenipotentiaries of Philip IV. of Spain
and the Delegates of the Dutch Vnited Provinces, assembled in the
Rathhaus at Miinster for the purpose of ratifying and confirming by oath
the Treaty of Peace between' the Spaniards'and the Dutch; signed on
the 30th of January previous'. (Catalogue). It is one of the master's
very finest works.
175. Van der Plaas (portrait, painter in Amsterdam, 17th cent.),
Portrait of John Milton. — *797. Cuyp, Portrait of a man, dated
1649.
Mi*. Crowe's words in reference to a similar work in Lord A shim r-
t.nu\s collection may be applied with perfect propriety to this portrait:
'The conception is animated, and the colouring as warm and forcible as
fhat of Rembrandt1.
54. Rembrandt van Ryn(&. 1609"), "Woman bathing, dated 1654.
'Her eyes are cast down, her head inclined. Is she hesitating to
enter the water in which she is mirrored? .... The charm and value
of this painting lie in the brillant touch and impasto, the warm and
forcible colouring, the middle tints, and the admirable modelling1. —
Vosmap.r., '•Rembrandt^ Sa Vie et ses (Fin-res'.
659. Johann Jiottenhanvmer (German painter in Italy, d. 1623),

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