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Title: The art of 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: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Preyer, David C. (David Charles), 1861-1913
Subjects: Art museums Painting
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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of England. Tischbein, on the contrary, paintedthe likenesses shown while on a visit to The Hague.Only Meyer von Bremen and Munkacsy representthe moderns, while Gabriel Max left a few examples 2i6 Ube Htt of tbe BetberlanO ©allerfes when in the seventies he was painting the lions ofthe Amsterdam Zoo for his famous LionsBride. The Enghsh School is entirely absent, excepta stray Sir Thomas Lawrence, and a few portraitswhich Hodges painted while settled in Amsterdam.It is strange that while the English were the mostsincere appreciators of the Dutch artists, import-ing their works, as well as the men themselves,not a single painting of the great British schoolof Reynolds, Gainsborough and Constable foundits way to Dutch collections. Alma Tadema, arelative of H. W. Mesdag, is naturally representedin his Museum, while the Ryks Museum may wellboast of a fine, early Whistler, ^ Effie Deans. In our walks through the Museums the examplesof the foreign schools will be noted as they are metwith.
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