. Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent . e Art School at the Hague, and later intothe studio of Yan Hove, at Antwerp. James was after-wards a pupil of Hubert in Paris, and Matthew joined himthere. They were to depart widely, however, from any-thing that could be learned from the pupil of Maris, the youngest brother, received his teachingmainly from his brothers. James, who died in 1892, wasmainly a landscape painter, as is also William. The formertook for his subject the typical scenes of Holland, the widestretches of country, the canals, the towns, red-bricked an
. Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent . e Art School at the Hague, and later intothe studio of Yan Hove, at Antwerp. James was after-wards a pupil of Hubert in Paris, and Matthew joined himthere. They were to depart widely, however, from any-thing that could be learned from the pupil of Maris, the youngest brother, received his teachingmainly from his brothers. James, who died in 1892, wasmainly a landscape painter, as is also William. The formertook for his subject the typical scenes of Holland, the widestretches of country, the canals, the towns, red-bricked andred-roofed, the sea and the heavily-built fishing-boats. Ofcourse, on land there are windmills everywhere, and,above all, the sky, which in Holland, as in our easterncounties, will not let itself be overlooked, in fact, is morethere than elsewhere, an all-important factor in the land-scape. All this he painted strongly, yet at need delicately,with a quick response to changes of mood and has gone amongst the meadows and the trees and. FANTASY MATTHEW MARIS PAINTING IN OTHER COUNTRIES 243 painted them, and the pools among them, reflecting frommyriads of points the brilliance of the sun; and amid allthe splendour the cattle feed, or wander, or seek shadeunder the trees, or cool themselves in the water. Matthew,the second brother, has gone a wholly different way in he more than his brothers of the race of his grand-father1? Certainly neither the wide landscape nor thepastures and cattle of Holland have sufficed for him. Hisbrush is guided by an inward vision. His Lausanneis like a dream of the Middle Ages; and, indeed, he hassought, for his art, more beautiful things than those abouthim. Israels found his poetry in the actual life of hispoor neighbours; Matthew Maris paints a young prince andprincess—young lovers, as it seems—in old-time costume;The Kings Children is a drawing that takes us into legendor fairy-tale; and The Christening, The Flower, He isC
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