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John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)

Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 355

An illustration from John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools, 1858, leaf 355
re none such. There are painters of moonlit scenes; but there is no other painter of moonlight, with its silverytransparency and spiritualising purity. Moore sings sweetly of maids who love the moon. Nomaid ever loved, wooed, watched, and worshipped the moon as did this great painter, wlio devoted… … OLLAND was the nursery of landscape painters. During the course ofthe seventeenth century the Dutch school produced many first-rate artistsin this style, and among the number John Asselyn is one of the mostoriginal, prolific, and pleasing. In discussing the characteristics of this painter, Albert…

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