The Vienna galleries : giving a brief history of the public and private galleries of Vienna ; with a critical description of the paintings therein contained . our. The whole portrait is finished with ex-treme care, as was then the masters way, yet itdoes not lack freedom in the treatment, for theutmost vitality animates even now this young girlof Amsterdam of three centuries ago. A direct pupil of Rembrandt was Gabriel was of an impressionable character, and in hisshort life of seven and thirty years he painted inthe style of each one of his teachers, Dou, JanSteen, and Rembrandt. The
The Vienna galleries : giving a brief history of the public and private galleries of Vienna ; with a critical description of the paintings therein contained . our. The whole portrait is finished with ex-treme care, as was then the masters way, yet itdoes not lack freedom in the treatment, for theutmost vitality animates even now this young girlof Amsterdam of three centuries ago. A direct pupil of Rembrandt was Gabriel was of an impressionable character, and in hisshort life of seven and thirty years he painted inthe style of each one of his teachers, Dou, JanSteen, and Rembrandt. The last one had naturallymost influence on his work. The AmorousPleading (No. 658) is an unusually large com-position for this one of the Little Masters — socalled because of the usually small size of the pic-tures these Great Masters painted. It is entirelyin that later broad style of Rembrandt which findsits clearest echo in the work of Govert Flinck andvan den Eeckhout. One of the last disciples of Rembrandt wasAert van Gelder, an artist who was too eccentricto attain to eminence, and whose work is at itsbest when he follows his masters example with. DIRKHALS CELLO PLAYERPlate xxvii ImperialAcademyof Fine Arts ITmperfal Hcaoems of ffine arts 189 reserve. We find here a Judah and Thamar(No. 817) in worthy imitation of Rembrandtslater biblical compositions. One of the earliest pupils in the studio on theJewish Breestraat in Amsterdam had been NicolaasMaes — perhaps the most gifted of them all, whohas painted works that rival in true artistic meritthe work of Rembrandt and Hals, as may be seenespecially in the Ryksmuseum of Amsterdam. Butin his later years he succumbed to the demands ofthe Frenchified taste of his countrymen, and hepainted a number of childrens portraits, as well asadults for the patrician families of his time in astyle that may be called pleasing, but certainly wasmeretricious. An example of this later period wefind here in the Portrait of a Boy (No. 670),dr
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