Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works ; a handbook (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 269
ost remarkable; sominutelv did he dwell on at each part, that he wasobliged to relinquish por-trait painting on account ofthe weariness to his sitters.He loved to paint her-mits, and Scriptural events,and, like Rembrandt, heoften repeated his ownface. His impasto is ad-mirable ; his color warmand… … PICTURE BY G. DOW. Vienna Gall. 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 right…
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