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 361
EXEIIBITION. landscape painting; but Asselyn, who had successftilly adopted Claudes handling and manner, sur-prised and delighted the academicians of his own country by a light and warmth which they hadnever seen, either in nature or in their own paintings. As Herman Swanevelt and John Both… … his landscape in the melancholy hues of his own sombre genius, proved how deep a pathos and real apoetry lay beneath a clouded sun and in a darkened prospect. That Asselyn was the rage at Amsterdam is evident from the fact that Rembrandt, who at thattime was painting or engraving the portraits of…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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