is said, done in obedience to the taste of thepublic, which preferred to buy landscapes with figuresand animals, water with accurately-detailed ships uponit. None of the painters of that time would havebeen capable of making the reply which WillemMaris gave to one who asked him why he alwayspainted… … LANDSCAPE—D. J. VAN DER LAEN(Royal Picture Gallery, Berlin) ;. ■ x \: The Landscape and Genre-painters. 49 and study the painting of the seventeenth century.And so greatly was this the case that we receive noimpression of the eighteenth century at all in the betterpart of their work and but little…
Painting, Dutch and Flemish
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