Hobbema (1638?-1709) was probably the pupil of Jacob van Ruisdael, and
ranks with him, if not above him, in seventeenth-century landscape painting.
Ruisdael hardly ever painted sunlight, whereas Hobbema rather affected it in
quiet wood-scenes or roadways with little pools of water and a mill. He was a
freer man with the brush than Ruisdael, and knew more about the natural
appearance of trees, skies, and lights; but, like his master, his view of nature
found no favor in his own land. Most of his work is in England, where it had not
a little to do with influencing such painters as Constable and others at the
beginning of the nineteenth century.
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FIG. 85.—ISRAELS. ALONE IN THE
WORLD.
LANDSCAPE WITH CATTLE: Here we meet with
Wouverman (1619-1668),
a painter of horses, cavalry, battles, and riding parties placed in landscape.
His landscape is bright and his horses are spirited in action. There is some
mannerism apparent in his reiterated concentration of light on a white horse,
and some repetition in his canvases, of which there are many; but on the whole
he was an interesting, if smooth and neat painter.
Paul Potter
(1625-1654) hardly merited his great repute. He was a harsh, exact recorder of
facts,
canvas paintings for sale, often tin-like or woodeny in his cattle, and not in any way remarkable in
his landscapes, least of all in their composition. The Young Bull at the Hague
is an ambitious piece of drawing, but is not successful in color, light, or
ensemble. It is a brittle work all through, and not nearly so good as
some smaller things in the National Gallery London, and in the Louvre.
Adrien
van de Velde (1635?-1672) was short-lived,
art oil painting for sale, like Potter, but managed to
do a prodigious
amount of work, showing cattle and figures in landscape with much technical
ability and good feeling. He was particularly good in composition and the subtle
gradation of neutral tints. A little of the Italian influence appeared in his
work, and with the men who came with him and after him the Italian imitation
became very pronounced.
Aelbert Cuyp(1620-1691) was a many-sided painter,
adopting at various times different styles, but was enough of a genius to be
himself always. He is best known to us, perhaps,
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along rivers, with cattle in the foreground, though he painted still-life, and
even portraits and marines. In composing a group he was knowing, recording
natural effects with power; in light and atmosphere he was one of the best of
his time, and in texture and color refined, and frequently brilliant.
Both (1610-1650?),
Berchem (1620-1683),
Du Jardin
(1622?-1678), followed the Italian tradition of Claude Lorrain, producing
semi-classic landscapes, never very convincing in their originality.
Van der Heyden
(1637-1712), should be mentioned as an excellent, if minute, painter of
architecture with remarkable atmospheric effects.
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MARINE AND STILL-LIFE PAINTERS: There were two pre-eminent marine
painters in this seventeenth century,
Willem van de Velde (1633-1707) and
Backhuisen (1631-1708). The sea was not an unusual subject with the Dutch
landscapists. Van Goyen,
Simon de Vlieger (1601?-1660?), Cuyp,
Willem
van de Velde the Elder (1611?-1693), all employed it; but it was Van de
Velde the Younger who really stood at the head of the marine painters. He knew
his subject thoroughly, having been well grounded in it by his father and De
Vlieger,
oil painting on canvas for sale, so that the painting of the Dutch fleets and harbors was a part of his
nature. He preferred the quiet haven to the open sea. Smooth water, calm skies,
silvery light, and boats lying listlessly at anchor with drooping sails, made up
his usual subject. The color was almost always in a key of silver and gray, very
charming in its harmony and serenity,
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went to England and entered the service of the English king, and thereafter did
English fleets rather than Dutch ones. Backhuisen was quite the reverse of Van
de Velde in preferring the tempest to the calm of the sea. He also used more
brilliant and varied colors, but he was not so happy in harmony as Van de Velde.
There was often dryness in his handling, and something too much of the
theatrical in his wrecks on rocky shores.
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The still-life painters of Holland were all of them rather petty in their
emphasis of details such as figures on table-covers, water-drops on flowers, and
fur on rabbits. It was labored work with little of the art spirit about it,
except as the composition showed good masses. A number of these painters gained
celebrity in their day by their microscopic labor over fruits, flowers, and the
like, but they have no great rank at the present time.
Jan van Heem
(1600?1684?)
was perhaps the best painter of flowers among them.
Van Huysum
(1682-1749) succeeded with the same subject beyond his deserts.
Hondecoeter(1636-1695) was a unique painter of poultry;
Weenix
(1640-1719) and
Van Aelst (1620-1679), of dead game;
Kalf
(1630?-1693), of pots, pans, dishes, and vegetables.
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