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Title: The Netherland galleries : being a history of the Dutch school of painting, illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in the many galleries
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Preyer, David C. (David Charles), 1861-1913
Subjects: Art museums Painting
Publisher: Boston : St. Botolph Society
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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ound over thechimney in an old house in Utrecht, in which thepainter at one time resided. Jan van Bylert hastwo genres, The Return from the Chase and The Concert, which place him in the second orthird rank of Dutch artists — and nevertheless aremore interesting than the work of many Italianpainters of greater fame. The Boymans Museum of Rotterdam Although the general average of the four hun-dred paintings in this Gallery falls below that ofAmsterdam and The Hague, there are still a fewexamples of extraordinary merit, while the collec-tion as a whole is fairly representative of the art-ists shown. Four of the six rooms on the upperfloor are devoted to the 17th century school, andtwo to modern pictures. After ascending the stairs we find in the vesti-bule an uninteresting van der Heist, Portrait ofa Man, with rather flat and insipid painting. Noris another mans portrait, by Netscher, of superiorforce. A large mythological subject by Goltziusdepicts Mercury offering to Juno the Eyes of
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