DOI issue:
No. 166 (January, 1907)
DOI article:Halton, Ernest G.: The collection of Mr. Alexander Young, [4]: the modern dutch pictures
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0314
The Alexander Young Collection—IV. Modern Dutch Pictures
"the towing path by james mae is
few equals at the present time. Perhaps the most of the humble life of his country, its sufferings,
remarkable work by William Maris in the collection and its resignation ; and while he has undoubtedly
is the Ducks (p. 300), a large picture very broadly come under the spell of that magician of the brush,
and loosely painted, and particularly fine in depth Rembrandt, he is an artist of rare originality both
and quality of colour. It is not so characteristic of in technique and expression.
his work as some of his other canvases to be seen Amongst the many important examples of his
here, but it is, as far as the masterly treatment work in the collection, none are of more interest
and dignified conception are concerned, the most than The Shipwrecked Mariner. This imposing
important and certainly the most interesting. On picture, exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London
the Marsh (p. 299) is the finest example of the in 1862, was the first work to win fame for him
more familiar side of his art — beautiful in its abroad, and was then purchased by the late Mr.
atmospheric qualities, in its luminosity and Arthur J. Lewis. It is a wonderfully dramatic
quiet sentiment. Heifers in a Stable (p. 301) and moving canvas, in which is seen a group of
shows clever draughtsman-
ship and truthfulness of
observation.
The leader of the modern
Dutch school is Josef
Israels; not that he has
necessarily achieved the
most distinction, but that
it was to him more than to
any other artist that the re-
vival of art in Holland was
due, and, after half a century
of steady and indefatigable
work, he is painting to-day
at the great age of eighty-
three with all the enthusiasm
of youth. In spite of the
fact that his art is often
tinged with melancholy and
pathos, and that his range
of subjects is limited, his
popularity is world-wide.
He is the great poet-painter "showery weather by james maris
294
"the towing path by james mae is
few equals at the present time. Perhaps the most of the humble life of his country, its sufferings,
remarkable work by William Maris in the collection and its resignation ; and while he has undoubtedly
is the Ducks (p. 300), a large picture very broadly come under the spell of that magician of the brush,
and loosely painted, and particularly fine in depth Rembrandt, he is an artist of rare originality both
and quality of colour. It is not so characteristic of in technique and expression.
his work as some of his other canvases to be seen Amongst the many important examples of his
here, but it is, as far as the masterly treatment work in the collection, none are of more interest
and dignified conception are concerned, the most than The Shipwrecked Mariner. This imposing
important and certainly the most interesting. On picture, exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London
the Marsh (p. 299) is the finest example of the in 1862, was the first work to win fame for him
more familiar side of his art — beautiful in its abroad, and was then purchased by the late Mr.
atmospheric qualities, in its luminosity and Arthur J. Lewis. It is a wonderfully dramatic
quiet sentiment. Heifers in a Stable (p. 301) and moving canvas, in which is seen a group of
shows clever draughtsman-
ship and truthfulness of
observation.
The leader of the modern
Dutch school is Josef
Israels; not that he has
necessarily achieved the
most distinction, but that
it was to him more than to
any other artist that the re-
vival of art in Holland was
due, and, after half a century
of steady and indefatigable
work, he is painting to-day
at the great age of eighty-
three with all the enthusiasm
of youth. In spite of the
fact that his art is often
tinged with melancholy and
pathos, and that his range
of subjects is limited, his
popularity is world-wide.
He is the great poet-painter "showery weather by james maris
294