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GERHARD DOUW.
the lively characteristic expression so indispensable to a good portrait, his
faithful pencil never failed to exhibit the languor and vexation of his weary
patient. Accordingly he quitted portrait painting, and devoted his labours
to painting conversations and small pictures, representing single figures
variously occupied, and surrounded by such articles as were appropriate to
the subject; all which he finished with the most exquisite neatness. His
works were purchased with the greatest avidity, at very high prices, fixed by
himself according to the time occupied, and as he enjoyed, besides the profits
of his profession, a pension of a thousand guilders per annum from M.
Spiering, he became very rich.
The events of his life have not been sufficiently important to leave any
anecdote of genera] interest.
the lively characteristic expression so indispensable to a good portrait, his
faithful pencil never failed to exhibit the languor and vexation of his weary
patient. Accordingly he quitted portrait painting, and devoted his labours
to painting conversations and small pictures, representing single figures
variously occupied, and surrounded by such articles as were appropriate to
the subject; all which he finished with the most exquisite neatness. His
works were purchased with the greatest avidity, at very high prices, fixed by
himself according to the time occupied, and as he enjoyed, besides the profits
of his profession, a pension of a thousand guilders per annum from M.
Spiering, he became very rich.
The events of his life have not been sufficiently important to leave any
anecdote of genera] interest.