A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . r visited that country, and he probably acquired the taste from the pictures of Everdingen,though it is hard to believe that they are not based on the study of nature. Though one ofthe greatest of landscape painters, he met with little encouragement in his life. The figuresin his pictures were usually inserted by other artists. Hobbema is said to have been hispupil. In his earlier works he spells his name, like his uncle, Ruysdael, in his later he usesthe form Ruisdael.
A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . r visited that country, and he probably acquired the taste from the pictures of Everdingen,though it is hard to believe that they are not based on the study of nature. Though one ofthe greatest of landscape painters, he met with little encouragement in his life. The figuresin his pictures were usually inserted by other artists. Hobbema is said to have been hispupil. In his earlier works he spells his name, like his uncle, Ruysdael, in his later he usesthe form Ruisdael. III. 63. Landscape, with a waterfall and pine-trees. The water-fall, which flows towards and occupies the foreground, is divided byprojecting rocks into three main streams. In the foreground 1. a the fall the stream winds to 1.; the 1. bank is steep, clothedwith pines, on its highest point is a castle with square keep. Ther. bank, more distant, rises to a bare hill. Cloudy sunset sky withlight behind the pines on 1. * See A. Bredius, Het Geboortejaar van Jacob van Ruisdael, Oud Holland, VI. 1888,pp. 21— *3
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