. 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. add to their interest and sense of tone and colour is to be admired, aswell as his delicacy of form and outline. He showsa wonderful subtlety in the gradation of almostneutral hues. His sandy coast scenes have air,space and perspective, of which we find an exquisiteexample in the Six collection, full of poetic assertive and masterful than van Ruisdael orHobbema, he nevertheless pleases by his tru
. 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. add to their interest and sense of tone and colour is to be admired, aswell as his delicacy of form and outline. He showsa wonderful subtlety in the gradation of almostneutral hues. His sandy coast scenes have air,space and perspective, of which we find an exquisiteexample in the Six collection, full of poetic assertive and masterful than van Ruisdael orHobbema, he nevertheless pleases by his truth andrefinement. Jan Hackaert (1629-1699), althoughformed in Germany and Italy, retained his love for ,his own land, and expressed this on national a few of his southern views are found inBerlin and elsewhere. The examples we see in theNetherland Galleries are pure in native Wood near The Hague was his principalsketching ground. A less known Amsterdam artist,Jan van Kessel (1641-1698), is reminiscent of vanRuisdael and Hobbema. Rotterdam has two of hisbest and most characteristic canvases. An earliertownsman of his, Jan van Beerstraten (1622-. Ube Xanfcscape painters 137 1666), painted sea views and townscapes. Theone in the Ryksmuseum gives a fair idea of hiscraftsmanship, with great harmony of colour, andfine contrast of light and shade. Lingelbach usu-ally supplied his figures. Other street views werepainted by van der Heyden and Berckheyden. Janvan der Heyden (1637-1712), despite being anartist, was a very practical man, since he made him-self meritorious by introducing the use of street-lamps, and by inventing the fire-engine. He hada fine sense of linear and aerial perspective, and thedelicate minuteness of detail in his pictures is al-ways kept in subordination to the general broader manner, but less forceful and clear, andsomewhat drier, are the city views by Gerrit Berck-heyden (1638-1698), who favoured especially themarket-place o
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