A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . aer. At nineteen he eloped with a young Catholic girl to Hamburg,but presently returned; entered the guild of St Luke at Haarlem, 1640, and was oneof its presidents in 1646. He obtained the highest repute as a painter of delicatelyfinished landscapes, with scenes of sporting and campaigning, and was at the head of anumerous school of pupils. Buried Haarlem, May 19, 1668. III. 69. Landscape with a sporting party. View of the woodededge of a winding river or chain of pool
A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . aer. At nineteen he eloped with a young Catholic girl to Hamburg,but presently returned; entered the guild of St Luke at Haarlem, 1640, and was oneof its presidents in 1646. He obtained the highest repute as a painter of delicatelyfinished landscapes, with scenes of sporting and campaigning, and was at the head of anumerous school of pupils. Buried Haarlem, May 19, 1668. III. 69. Landscape with a sporting party. View of the woodededge of a winding river or chain of pools. In foreground r., where aroad passes by the waters edge, a mounted sportsman on a skewbaldhorse and having a hawk at his wrist stops for his horse to drink; alittle in rear a second sportsman, having dismounted from the whitehorse which a groom is holding near by, levels his piece at a bird inthe wood. Trees fill the greater part of the picture. Beyond theriver 1., an open country with mountains in the distance. Blue sky,with light pearly clouds. Panel, i if by i 4f. Fitzwilliam. Smith, Cat. Rais. 1. p. 330, no. 8o
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