The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages (1880)
Sandhurst, Phillip T · N.Y., Worthington · leaf 140
ier, educatedhis son with the intention of making him a painter on glass. But his merits werefound to be too great to be allowed to be used on that branch of art. He wasaccordingly in 1628 apprenticed at Amsterdam to Rembrandt, with whom he remainedthree years. Dou was at first a portrait-painter,… … VAN HUYSUM. 87 This patient and laborious artist, who made his own brushes, pounded his owncolours, and prepared his own varnish, panels, or canvas, worked, in order to avoiddust, in a studio opening on to a wet ditch. Such was the popularity which Douenjoyed at Leyden, that he received from an…
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