[A Wanderer in Holland by E. V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Holland CHAPTER IX 43/47
He died at Antwerp when only thirty-three.
We have nothing of his in the National Gallery, but he is represented at the Wallace Collection. At Haarlem was born also, in 1620, Nicolas Berchem, painter of charming scenes of broken arches and columns (which he certainly never saw in his own country), made human and domestic by the presence of people and cows, and suffused with gentle light.
We have five of his pictures in the National Gallery.
Berchem's real name was Van Haarlem.
One day, however, when he was a pupil in Van Goyen's studio, his father pursued him for some fault.
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