Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers and their works : a handbook (1901)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 311
y ili<l bf (hvcll ontacli i)art, that he wasobliged to relinquish por-trait ]>ainting on account oftjic weariness to his sitters.He loved to jiaint her-mits, and Scriptural events,and, like RiMubrandt. heolliii re|Kated his owiiface. His impasto is ad-miral)le ; his color warmand… … i-ifni:i-. iiv (i. now.ViciiiiJi (iaii. DOW—DROST. 253 of his minute execution he finished more than 200 pictures. Theyare never large, and rarely contain more than three figures. Evenin his own time his works were so much esteemed that President VanSpiring offered him 1000 florins a year for the…
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