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THE GROSVENOR GALLERY.
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a very miracle in its way! The composition resembles a
picture in Lord Ashburton’s collection. (See the Cata-
logue of that Gallery.') Dated 1647, when Paul Potter
was in his twenty-second year,* and painted for his patron,
M. van Slingelandt, of Dort. When the famous Slinge-
landt collection was sold, more than a hundred years after,
(1785,) it was bought for 8010 fls. (75OZ.) At the sale of
the Tolezan collection, 1801, it was sold for 27050 francs,
(1082Z.) It subsequently became the property of Mr.
Crawford, of Rotterdam, to whom it was sold for 1350Z.
It is worthy of remark that after a lapse of nearly 200
years, the scene remains in the same state as when Paul
Potter painted it. The chateau with its turret at a distance,
now the property of a friend of Mr. Crawford, is scru--
pulously preserved unaltered, with reference to the fame of
this picture. In 1806, at a sale in London, it was bought
in for 1552Z. Soon after the Marquis of Westminster
obtained it, as is said, for 1500Z.
P. 1 ft. 3j- in. by 1 ft. 7 in. (Smith’s Cat. 35.)
REIDINGER (John Elias), b. 1695, at Him; d. . [A German
painter of hunts and wild animals, but better known as an admirable
etcher and engraver of such subjects. His pictures are very rare.)
102 Three Stags.—:8 in. by 10 in.
REMBRANDT (van Rhyn), b. 1605; d. 1668. [See p. 8. This
gallery affords the opportunity of studying Rembrandt as a poet-
painter, under some of his most remarkable aspects. The astonishing
genius of the man was never more fully displayed than in three of
his pictures here. I never look at them without feeling inclined to
exclaim, “ He hath a demon 1” The two portraits (Nos. 106 and 7,)
are not so much portraits as apparitions. “ The Salutation” is like
an ecstatic vision of the old scriptural times, summoned by some pre-
ternatural power; so dreamy, so delicate, so shadowy, so true! We
will begin with his own portrait.]
103 Portrait .—Rembrandt when about twenty, in the dress
of a soldier. Bust only, less than half life size; face seen in
front, the head inclined to one side. The hair, luxuriant
* “ The Young Bull,” at the Hague was painted in the same year.
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267
a very miracle in its way! The composition resembles a
picture in Lord Ashburton’s collection. (See the Cata-
logue of that Gallery.') Dated 1647, when Paul Potter
was in his twenty-second year,* and painted for his patron,
M. van Slingelandt, of Dort. When the famous Slinge-
landt collection was sold, more than a hundred years after,
(1785,) it was bought for 8010 fls. (75OZ.) At the sale of
the Tolezan collection, 1801, it was sold for 27050 francs,
(1082Z.) It subsequently became the property of Mr.
Crawford, of Rotterdam, to whom it was sold for 1350Z.
It is worthy of remark that after a lapse of nearly 200
years, the scene remains in the same state as when Paul
Potter painted it. The chateau with its turret at a distance,
now the property of a friend of Mr. Crawford, is scru--
pulously preserved unaltered, with reference to the fame of
this picture. In 1806, at a sale in London, it was bought
in for 1552Z. Soon after the Marquis of Westminster
obtained it, as is said, for 1500Z.
P. 1 ft. 3j- in. by 1 ft. 7 in. (Smith’s Cat. 35.)
REIDINGER (John Elias), b. 1695, at Him; d. . [A German
painter of hunts and wild animals, but better known as an admirable
etcher and engraver of such subjects. His pictures are very rare.)
102 Three Stags.—:8 in. by 10 in.
REMBRANDT (van Rhyn), b. 1605; d. 1668. [See p. 8. This
gallery affords the opportunity of studying Rembrandt as a poet-
painter, under some of his most remarkable aspects. The astonishing
genius of the man was never more fully displayed than in three of
his pictures here. I never look at them without feeling inclined to
exclaim, “ He hath a demon 1” The two portraits (Nos. 106 and 7,)
are not so much portraits as apparitions. “ The Salutation” is like
an ecstatic vision of the old scriptural times, summoned by some pre-
ternatural power; so dreamy, so delicate, so shadowy, so true! We
will begin with his own portrait.]
103 Portrait .—Rembrandt when about twenty, in the dress
of a soldier. Bust only, less than half life size; face seen in
front, the head inclined to one side. The hair, luxuriant
* “ The Young Bull,” at the Hague was painted in the same year.
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