Stories of the Flemish & Dutch artists, from the time of the Van Eycks to the end of the seventeenth century (1908)
Reynolds, Victor, comp · London, Chatto & Windus; New York, Duffield & Co. · leaf 388
offer of two hundredflorins for one of his pictures, which Van Laarpromptly refused. De Wet set to work to rackhis brains for a way of paying the artist out forthis (for picture merchants, like Italians, are im-placable on the score of vengeance), and in orderto have his revenge he resolved to make… … oo az< ac^ws WOUVERMANS 307 As soon as .the picture of Wouvermans wascompleted, De Wet brought to the artists houseall the amateurs of the town whom he couldcollect, and commenced to praise and exalt thepicture of Wouvermans above that of Van Laar,for which purpose, not being possessed of…
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