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NICHOLAS BERGHEM.
scape and animal painter, among the best artists of
the Dutch school.
That he possessed, in a considerable degree, a clas-
sical taste, is evident in most of his landscapes, and
particularly in those representing mountainous scenes,
diversified with broad masses of trees, and cascades of
water; or, when the view exhibits a wild and arid
scite, leading the eye over the dreary fell to distant
mountains, behind whose lofty summits the sun has set,
and left an intervening gloom. His more familiar scenes
are frequently adorned with the ruins of aqueducts,
fountains, bridges, and temples, rendered gay by the
presence of the genial warmth of a fine summer
morning, or the glowing heat of the setting sun. Such
indeed is the variety of scenery observable in his works,
that he must have possessed an inexhaustible store of
materials ready for his fertile and imaginative genius,
to combine, and dispose, as his judgment dictated.
The beauty and excellence of his landscape delinea-
tions would have been alone sufficient to establish for
him a lasting reputation ; but when, in addition to his
merits in this department, is adduced the cattle and
figures, which animate in so delightful a manner the
various scenes already briefly noticed, it will not surely
be considered incorrect in placing him at the head of
the several painters who have employed themselves in
the same department of art, and whose productions
form the contents of the present volume.
The numerous drawings in chalk, or indian ink, of
animals and figures, which enrich the collections of the
curious, prove how indefatigable he was in studying
NICHOLAS BERGHEM.
scape and animal painter, among the best artists of
the Dutch school.
That he possessed, in a considerable degree, a clas-
sical taste, is evident in most of his landscapes, and
particularly in those representing mountainous scenes,
diversified with broad masses of trees, and cascades of
water; or, when the view exhibits a wild and arid
scite, leading the eye over the dreary fell to distant
mountains, behind whose lofty summits the sun has set,
and left an intervening gloom. His more familiar scenes
are frequently adorned with the ruins of aqueducts,
fountains, bridges, and temples, rendered gay by the
presence of the genial warmth of a fine summer
morning, or the glowing heat of the setting sun. Such
indeed is the variety of scenery observable in his works,
that he must have possessed an inexhaustible store of
materials ready for his fertile and imaginative genius,
to combine, and dispose, as his judgment dictated.
The beauty and excellence of his landscape delinea-
tions would have been alone sufficient to establish for
him a lasting reputation ; but when, in addition to his
merits in this department, is adduced the cattle and
figures, which animate in so delightful a manner the
various scenes already briefly noticed, it will not surely
be considered incorrect in placing him at the head of
the several painters who have employed themselves in
the same department of art, and whose productions
form the contents of the present volume.
The numerous drawings in chalk, or indian ink, of
animals and figures, which enrich the collections of the
curious, prove how indefatigable he was in studying