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LANSDOWNE COLLECTION.
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VANDER HELST (Bartholomew), b. at Haarlem, 1613; d. 1670.
An eminent Dutch portrait painter. His masterpiece is in the Stadt
House at Amsterdam, and contains thirty full-length portraits, of
such excellence that Sir Joshua Reynolds says it leaves the spectator
nothing to wish for.]
99 A Female Portrait.—Full of quiet truth and nature.
Small. On copper. L. LI.
100 Portrait of a Man.—Life size. L. H.
WOUVERMANNS (P.), b. at Haarlem, 1620 ; d. 1668. [Seep. 60.]
101 A Landscape.—In the foreground, a flock of sheep,
and a group of trees on a high bank, beyond which is an
effect of light, extremely beautiful. A road goes up under
the trees, on which is seen a cavalier in a red dress, mounted
on a grey horse. Purchased at the sale of Lord Mul-
grave’s pictures. B.
102 A Falconer —on a white horse; a boy carrying a basket.
A little picture, full of air, life, and light. From the col-
lection of the Duchesse de Berri. B.
103 The Keapers.—-Three men reaping and binding corn,
with which they load a horse. Purchased at the sale of
Mr. Maitland’s pictures. B.
104 A Cart and White Horse—in the foreground; a
woman with a child seated on the ground, and two men
loading a cart on a high bank behind. This is an excellent
copy after Wouvermanns, by Reinagle. B.
WYNANTS (Jan). [The description of the picture here, minute as
it is, would serve for many of the pictures of Wynants, which yet are
very different from each other. He had the art of giving variety to
elements the most simple and monotonous ; but he is unequal, and
the delicacy of his colour, and the finish of his execution, sometimes
verge on paleness and feebleness. He has the merit of originality,
for he resembled no painter who preceded him, while he formed
several admirable artists, who more or less imitated his manner.*]
* See the Introduction to Sir Robert Peel’s Gallery, for a general view of the
Dutch landscape painters.
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321
VANDER HELST (Bartholomew), b. at Haarlem, 1613; d. 1670.
An eminent Dutch portrait painter. His masterpiece is in the Stadt
House at Amsterdam, and contains thirty full-length portraits, of
such excellence that Sir Joshua Reynolds says it leaves the spectator
nothing to wish for.]
99 A Female Portrait.—Full of quiet truth and nature.
Small. On copper. L. LI.
100 Portrait of a Man.—Life size. L. H.
WOUVERMANNS (P.), b. at Haarlem, 1620 ; d. 1668. [Seep. 60.]
101 A Landscape.—In the foreground, a flock of sheep,
and a group of trees on a high bank, beyond which is an
effect of light, extremely beautiful. A road goes up under
the trees, on which is seen a cavalier in a red dress, mounted
on a grey horse. Purchased at the sale of Lord Mul-
grave’s pictures. B.
102 A Falconer —on a white horse; a boy carrying a basket.
A little picture, full of air, life, and light. From the col-
lection of the Duchesse de Berri. B.
103 The Keapers.—-Three men reaping and binding corn,
with which they load a horse. Purchased at the sale of
Mr. Maitland’s pictures. B.
104 A Cart and White Horse—in the foreground; a
woman with a child seated on the ground, and two men
loading a cart on a high bank behind. This is an excellent
copy after Wouvermanns, by Reinagle. B.
WYNANTS (Jan). [The description of the picture here, minute as
it is, would serve for many of the pictures of Wynants, which yet are
very different from each other. He had the art of giving variety to
elements the most simple and monotonous ; but he is unequal, and
the delicacy of his colour, and the finish of his execution, sometimes
verge on paleness and feebleness. He has the merit of originality,
for he resembled no painter who preceded him, while he formed
several admirable artists, who more or less imitated his manner.*]
* See the Introduction to Sir Robert Peel’s Gallery, for a general view of the
Dutch landscape painters.
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