. 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. warden. His early portraitsmark him as a follower of the great master, butlater he became more conventional. He distin-guished himself by his extraordinary facility, andHoubraken asserts that he finished the half lengthof a lady, dressed in troublesome drapery andloaded with jewelry, in one day. He also acquiredgreat reputation as a painter of historical pictures,which were extolled in the poetry of Vondel, butfew rema
. 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. warden. His early portraitsmark him as a follower of the great master, butlater he became more conventional. He distin-guished himself by his extraordinary facility, andHoubraken asserts that he finished the half lengthof a lady, dressed in troublesome drapery andloaded with jewelry, in one day. He also acquiredgreat reputation as a painter of historical pictures,which were extolled in the poetry of Vondel, butfew remain at the present time. Ferdinand Bol(1616-1680), born in Dordrecht, was brought toAmsterdam when three years old and died there,after acquiring considerable property through hisart. His early works, from about 1659, bear un-mistakably the stamp of his master, but in lateryears he became very uncertain and lost the powerof chiaroscuro, his pictures merely having a yellowtone. A portrait of de Ruyter. which originallyhung in the house of the Zeeland Scientific Associa-tion in Middelburg, but now in the Admirals Gal-lery of the Ryksmuseum, may be considered Ibis Contemporaries 8r Govert Flinck (1615-1660) was born in Cleve,on the German frontier. His parents, belongingto the Mennonite sect, were prejudiced against allthat savoured of art and destined him to a visit of Lambert Jacobsz. of Leeuwarden,who combined his painters profession with that ofMennonite exhorter, resulted in young Govert be-ing sent north. Soon he left his master to enterwith Jacob Backer Rembrandts studio. He wasthe masters most promising pupil, for after a yearhis work was scarcely discernible from facility hindered, however, his progress to thefulfilment of early promise. While his paintings,up to 1650, are worthy and distinguished, we findhim gradually deteriorating to Italian of his early pictures have in the past beensold as Rembrandts. Yet two ot
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