Homes, haunts, and works of Rubens, Vandyke, Rembrandt, and Cuyp; the Dutch genre-painters; Michael Angelo and Raffaelle. Being a series of art-rambles in Belgium, Holland and Italy (1872)
Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866 · New York : D. Appleton and co. · leaf 102
nt, who inhabited a castle onthe Scheldt, where Antwerp now stands, and exacted heavy tollfrom all boats that passed : if the men did not pay, he cut olT RUBENS AND VANDYKE, ETC. «S their hands. Braban, one of Julius Csesars generals, ultimatelyconquered him, founded the seignory named Brabant… … Fig. 61 Fig. 62. In spite, however, of so clear and vivacious a narrative, sobertopographers are more inclined to trace the name of the city fromits position, an twerf (on the wharf), that led to its greatcommercial prosperity. But we must bid adieu to civic legends, and take a last glanceat the…
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