. The Netherland galleries : being a history of the Dutch school of painting, illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in the many galleries. mptied three flagons of wine,Every one of them filled to the brim ! The execution of this picture is marvellous. Thecolours are splashed on without mixing, light andshadows are indicated by the same happy-go-lucky-dabs, but with wonderful sureness. Of Philip Wouwerman we have a PeasantFight, and by Thomas Wyck the Interior of aFarmhouse, both characteristic of these elder brother of Frans Hals, Dirk by name,one
. The Netherland galleries : being a history of the Dutch school of painting, illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in the many galleries. mptied three flagons of wine,Every one of them filled to the brim ! The execution of this picture is marvellous. Thecolours are splashed on without mixing, light andshadows are indicated by the same happy-go-lucky-dabs, but with wonderful sureness. Of Philip Wouwerman we have a PeasantFight, and by Thomas Wyck the Interior of aFarmhouse, both characteristic of these elder brother of Frans Hals, Dirk by name,one of the best early genre painters, is representedhere with one of his animated social gatherings,a picnic, which compares favourably with the pic-ture now in the Vienna Academy, which is consid-ered his masterpiece. His works are exceedinglyrare, only a few being in private collections. En-tirely in Frans Hals spirit is that laughing Drinker, by Judith Leyster, another artist ofwhom unfortunately very little has been left toposterity. A portrait by de Keyzer is supposed torepresent Admiral Piet Hein, the dare-devil sailorof the early Dutch navy, who with only a few ships. TKIlalfes Ubrougb tbe Galleries 257 captured in 1628 the entire Spanish fleet, ladenwith Mexican silver, whereby he brought elevenmillions of guilders to the coffers of the West-Indian Trading Company, in whose service he painter of city views and marines, Jan Beer-straten, of whom little is known, has a winter viewof the harbour side of Amsterdam; and of JakobA. Duck we find a well-authenticated little genre, The Wine-provers. In the next Cabinet (215) Beerstraten shows amore important view of the ruins of the Amster-dam Town Hall after the fire of 1652. Next tothis hang two portraits by Frans Hals, of Lukasde Clercq and of his wife Feyna van Steenkiste;also a fine kitchen of a farmhouse by van der Poel. Recently there was added to the Ryks Museumcollection an example of Jan Vermeer van Delft,The Kitche
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