Görling, Adolf; Meyer, Bruno; Woltmann, Alfred: Art treasures of Germany: a collection of the most important pictures of the galleries of Dresden, Cassel, Brunswick, Berlin, Munich and Vienna ; with portraits of the most celebrated masters (Boston: Walker, 1873)

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GERARD TER BURG.
love-sick dames are clothed in white satin. But not only so: he was the originator of his style
of art, he is at once the master and the herald of his school.
Amongst the portraits we need only mention his own portrait as Mayor, in the Museum
at the Hague, and the already mentioned “Congress at Munster,” all raising their hands in oath.
This picture, although very defective as an artistic work, on account of the black dresses, was
so highly esteemed for its historical associations and the expression of the heads that it became
the subject of an eager contest at the St. Donato auction in Paris, in 1868, and was finally sold
for 183,000 francs—the buyer unknown. It has since been offered to the National Gallery in
London—on behalf of which 180,000 had been bid at the sale.
B. M.

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