A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . of St Luke in 1640. One of the earliest of the great landscape-paintersof Holland. He preferred the simplest kind of inland or sea-coast scenery, and renderedit often almost in monochrome, in grey or golden tones and with great delicacy ofatmospheric effect. Died the Hague, April 30, 1656. See Bredius, Oud Holland, , pp. 113—125. III. 42. An Estuary. Broad expanse of water, under a cloudysky, with blue patches shewing through. A soft yellowish lightbreaks throug
A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . of St Luke in 1640. One of the earliest of the great landscape-paintersof Holland. He preferred the simplest kind of inland or sea-coast scenery, and renderedit often almost in monochrome, in grey or golden tones and with great delicacy ofatmospheric effect. Died the Hague, April 30, 1656. See Bredius, Oud Holland, , pp. 113—125. III. 42. An Estuary. Broad expanse of water, under a cloudysky, with blue patches shewing through. A soft yellowish lightbreaks through and catches the ripples of the water. In foreground1. stakes with a cross-piece, and by it a boat and three men. One to1. is hauling up a wicker cage attached to the stakes, the others arebusied with large lobster-pots. Farther away several smacks undersail, and across the water, far off, is a flat bank with trees, houses andwindmills on it. Signed on boat to 1. Panel, i if by i i. Mesman. V. 52. Landscape with figures. Foreground, rough, bare groundwith sparse tufts of grass. On a^ rugged knoll to 1. three figures,.
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