Famous painters and paintings . s born at Leyden in 1613. He entered Rem-brandts school at fifteen years of age, and in threeyears had attained the position of an independentartist. He possessed his masters feeling for the pic-turesque and for the most refined charms of chiaro-scuro ; in many cases, also, for power and transparencyof coloring. Notwithstanding the incalculable minute-ness of his execution, the touch of his brush is freeand soft, and his impasto admirable. He devoted him-self at first to portraiture; afterwards treated scenesfrom the middle and lower classes, but rarely fromthe
Famous painters and paintings . s born at Leyden in 1613. He entered Rem-brandts school at fifteen years of age, and in threeyears had attained the position of an independentartist. He possessed his masters feeling for the pic-turesque and for the most refined charms of chiaro-scuro ; in many cases, also, for power and transparencyof coloring. Notwithstanding the incalculable minute-ness of his execution, the touch of his brush is freeand soft, and his impasto admirable. He devoted him-self at first to portraiture; afterwards treated scenesfrom the middle and lower classes, but rarely fromthe upper classes. He took particular pleasure in therepresentation of hermits; and he also painted Scrip-tural subjects. The popularity of his works is no doubt chiefly dueto the exceeding care and minuteness of his execution,for it was the reality and not the poetry of nature whichhe aimed to reproduce. Very fine works by Dow are in the galleries of Paris,Amsterdam, Municli, Dresden, and St. Petersburg. He died at Leyden in THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY! ASTOR. LFNOXTILDFN FOUnCV-IONS 1615.] METSU. 189 METSU. /^ ABRIEL METSU was born in Leyden in 1615,VU aiitl settled subsequently in Amsterdam. It isnot known who was his instructor in art, but his worksshow that he formed his style after Terburg, who aloneis to be compared with him in his free and spiritedtouch and fine finish. He sometimes exhibits a humorallied to that of Jan Steen, with whom it is known helived in friendly intimacy. Like Terburg, he paintedscenes from the higher classes of life, yet he was alsosuccessful in scenes from common life. He paintedon a small scale, though capable of dealing with largerproportions. Portraits, as an exception, he sometimespainted as large as life. In refinement of drawing andin picturesque arrangement he is not surpassed by anyof the painters on a small scale. His heads are gen-erally characterized by the expression of good-humorand cheerfulness, and sometimes by that of highersen
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