Landscape and figure painters of America . ithout ex-pressing its effect on the artist. Like his con-?1669. temporary, Rembrandt, his is one of thosemysterious natures that flit across lifes stage,coming no one knows whence, and disappear-ing in the gloom of poverty and amid the neg-lect of the world. These two great artistshave a very similar manner of looking at lifeand its mysteries, and being in every way soout of the ordinary, it is little wonder thatworldly success and the ways of the worldwere not for them. Ruysdael is the first tohear the plaintive minor chord in the har-mony that rise
Landscape and figure painters of America . ithout ex-pressing its effect on the artist. Like his con-?1669. temporary, Rembrandt, his is one of thosemysterious natures that flit across lifes stage,coming no one knows whence, and disappear-ing in the gloom of poverty and amid the neg-lect of the world. These two great artistshave a very similar manner of looking at lifeand its mysteries, and being in every way soout of the ordinary, it is little wonder thatworldly success and the ways of the worldwere not for them. Ruysdael is the first tohear the plaintive minor chord in the har-mony that rises from the earth and to feelthe restless, never satisfied spirit which hasbecome so dominant a factor in modernthought and feeling. He brings into landscapepainting the strong subjective element, andlooking at his pictures we can almost revivein imagination his gentle personality, throughhis tender and rather sad views of the flatmeadows, the towns, and the bleaching-greensof his native Holland. The next great landscape artist to appear. A BRIEF HISTORY 19 was Watteau,1 in France, who painted his dreams with a strange creative power,and placed the figures of the gay men andwomen of his fantasies in idyllic scenes ofremarkable beauty and charming, sparklingcolour. It is in these landscapes with theirdelicate effects of light and sunshine, andtheir suggestive quality, that his great giftsand careful study of nature are seen. Hislife was a short one and his constitution wasweakened by constant ill-health. He seemsto have painted these scenes of a fairy landwhere all are happy, and where sorrow andsuffering enter not, as a contrast to his ownexperience and as a relief to his distressedheart. Then the genius of art touches Constable2 Turner3 in England. Constable was one the creators and strong forces in the historyof landscape. He was the first to give a realout-of-door, atmospheric appearance to hispictures, and he had a very vigorous
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