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THE QUEEN’S GALLERY.
163 Lot and his Daughters.— One of the daughters is 2
reclining at his side ; the other, bending over, presses the
juice from a bunch of grapes into his cup. A disagreeable
subject, which Vander Werf has repeated several times,
and which becomes, if not more agreeable, at least less
offensive under his ice-cold, delicate pencil. Duplicates
are at Dresden and Potzdam ; formerly in the collections of
the Due de Choiseul and the Prince de Conti. Purchased
last from the collection of M. de Calonne, for 3001.
P. 1 ft. in. by 1 ft. 2 in.(Smith’s Cat. 55.)
164 Two Children with a Guinea-pig.—Figures half- 3
length ; a piece of rich Turkey carpet in front. I presume,
portraits.
Baring collection. About 12 in. by 10 in.
WOUVERMANNS (Philip), b. at Haerlem, 1620; d. 1668.
[Of Philip Wouvermanns, Sir Joshua Reynolds says, that “ he is
one of the few painters whose excellence in his particular department
is such as leaves us nothing to wish for.” He painted scenes of
hunting and hawking, horse-fairs, farriers’ shops, camp-scenes, skir-
mishes of cavalry, sea-shore scenes, and halts of travellers before old
mansions and picturesque inns. All these are compositions, for it is
the characteristic of Wouvermanns, as of Berghem, that he never
conveys the impression of having painted from nature and reality; in
this respect they contrast strongly with Cuyp and Hobbema. The
number of pictures painted by Wouvermanns, in a short life, is per-
fectly amazing, (upwards of five hundred,) and their infinite variety
of subject, and the fertility of fancy and invention displayed in them,
even more surprising, for he was never known to repeat the same
subject; there exists no duplicate of any of his pictures. He had a
first, second, and third manner, all distinguishable. The first is a
little tame and heavy, comparatively; the second, free and vigorous;
and the third more delicate in the touch and silvery in the tone of
colour.* His brother, Peter Wouvermanns, imitated him, but is
very inferior.
* See this painter further characterized in the Catalogue of the Dulwich
Gallery (First Series), p. 456.
THE QUEEN’S GALLERY.
163 Lot and his Daughters.— One of the daughters is 2
reclining at his side ; the other, bending over, presses the
juice from a bunch of grapes into his cup. A disagreeable
subject, which Vander Werf has repeated several times,
and which becomes, if not more agreeable, at least less
offensive under his ice-cold, delicate pencil. Duplicates
are at Dresden and Potzdam ; formerly in the collections of
the Due de Choiseul and the Prince de Conti. Purchased
last from the collection of M. de Calonne, for 3001.
P. 1 ft. in. by 1 ft. 2 in.(Smith’s Cat. 55.)
164 Two Children with a Guinea-pig.—Figures half- 3
length ; a piece of rich Turkey carpet in front. I presume,
portraits.
Baring collection. About 12 in. by 10 in.
WOUVERMANNS (Philip), b. at Haerlem, 1620; d. 1668.
[Of Philip Wouvermanns, Sir Joshua Reynolds says, that “ he is
one of the few painters whose excellence in his particular department
is such as leaves us nothing to wish for.” He painted scenes of
hunting and hawking, horse-fairs, farriers’ shops, camp-scenes, skir-
mishes of cavalry, sea-shore scenes, and halts of travellers before old
mansions and picturesque inns. All these are compositions, for it is
the characteristic of Wouvermanns, as of Berghem, that he never
conveys the impression of having painted from nature and reality; in
this respect they contrast strongly with Cuyp and Hobbema. The
number of pictures painted by Wouvermanns, in a short life, is per-
fectly amazing, (upwards of five hundred,) and their infinite variety
of subject, and the fertility of fancy and invention displayed in them,
even more surprising, for he was never known to repeat the same
subject; there exists no duplicate of any of his pictures. He had a
first, second, and third manner, all distinguishable. The first is a
little tame and heavy, comparatively; the second, free and vigorous;
and the third more delicate in the touch and silvery in the tone of
colour.* His brother, Peter Wouvermanns, imitated him, but is
very inferior.
* See this painter further characterized in the Catalogue of the Dulwich
Gallery (First Series), p. 456.