. Stories of the Flemish & Dutch artists, from the time of the Van Eycks to the end of the seventeenth century . rawings of ships, ten,twenty, thirty, and at last even as much as ahundred gulden and more apiece. He would frequent at that time the studiosof the best painters, and more especially that ofAllart van Everdingen, studying the way theymixed their colours and sketched in and finishedtheir pictures; and in a short space of time hewas able, like a second Olivier van Oort, to makea tour of the world, by means of his painted ships.) He was a courteous, industrious, and tranquilman, blesse
. Stories of the Flemish & Dutch artists, from the time of the Van Eycks to the end of the seventeenth century . rawings of ships, ten,twenty, thirty, and at last even as much as ahundred gulden and more apiece. He would frequent at that time the studiosof the best painters, and more especially that ofAllart van Everdingen, studying the way theymixed their colours and sketched in and finishedtheir pictures; and in a short space of time hewas able, like a second Olivier van Oort, to makea tour of the world, by means of his painted ships.) He was a courteous, industrious, and tranquilman, blessed with a simple and ready tongue, andhe gave himself neither to wine nor beer, but onthe contrary passed his life working only for thegood of the Republic and that of his own house-hold. His sole amusement and distraction wasto take the air on the banks of the Amstel or theY ; and if it happened sometimes that the windbeat up the waves, and the sea became so roughthat even the hardiest of pilots sought refuge fromthe oncoming storm, the great painter would getinto a boat and order himself to be rowed to the. LUDOLF BAKHUIZEN 295 sea-mouth, where he could study the variationsof the clouds and the waters, the movement ofthe storm-tossed waves and of the breakers rushingon to the rocks, and such other things as marinepainters must make a study of. And most of allhe profited by these chances of weather when hehad in hand some project for a picture, so that hecould refresh his old ideas and make use with artand judgment of his new observations. It was his habit on his return from theseexcursions to shut himself up in his room and torefuse admittance to any one until he had fixedhis ideas upon canvas. In a word, he was apainter who knew well how to imitate Naturewith great truth, and the result was that his workwas greedily sought for by kings and princes andwas to be found in almost every notable collec-tion. The nobles and well-born folk and theburgomasters of the great communal ca
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