. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. WITH HIS SOX ISAAC. 1645 (D. 34). REMBRANDT S TREATMENT OF LANDSCAPE 237 refreshment which draws so many stricken souls to the fields andwoods. Or it may be that Titus—who, to judge by his portraits,was never robust—required country air. Whatever the cause,studies of landscape become very frequent in his ceuvrc from thistime onward. Rembrandt had always loved natural scenery, as thenumerous works by landscape painters included in his inventoryattest. It was no doubt while still living in his native town thathe bought sea pieces and views
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. WITH HIS SOX ISAAC. 1645 (D. 34). REMBRANDT S TREATMENT OF LANDSCAPE 237 refreshment which draws so many stricken souls to the fields andwoods. Or it may be that Titus—who, to judge by his portraits,was never robust—required country air. Whatever the cause,studies of landscape become very frequent in his ceuvrc from thistime onward. Rembrandt had always loved natural scenery, as thenumerous works by landscape painters included in his inventoryattest. It was no doubt while still living in his native town thathe bought sea pieces and views of the dunes by Jan Percellis, whowas living in seclusion near Leyden, and by Percellis brother-in-law,H. van Anthonissen, who sojourned for a time at Leyderdorp beforesettling in Amsterdam. Besides the works of these masters, heowned grisailles by Simon de Vlieger, views of the Tyrol by. i I K S B K I D r; (E. 2o3). Roelandt Savery, landscapes by his friend Lievens, and by GovertJansz, an artist of some note in his day, none of whose works havesurvived, and, further, eight pictures by Hercules Seghers, whoseoriginality and ingenuity in experiment influenced the master himselfvery considerably, as we shall find later. In Leyden itself, landscape-painters such as Aernout Elzevier, Conracdt Schilperoort, the some-time master of Van Goyen, and Van Goyen himself, flourishedduring Rembrandts youth. The last married at Leyden in 1618,and lived there till 1631, the year when Rembrandt removed toAmsterdam. These men, together with Esaias van de Velde, Pieter Molyn, andSalomon van Ruysdael, were the pioneers of landscape-painting inHolland Rembrandt had learnt to admire their novel methodsamidst those very scenes in which some of them hail formed. His J3S REMBRANDT own walks and studies in the neighbourhood of Leyden enabled him toappreciate their talent and their s
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