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A Wanderer in Holland

CHAPTER XVII
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Nor does Deventer.

How Terburg looked as Burgomaster of Deventer is seen in his portrait of himself in the Mauritshuis at The Hague.

It was not often that the great Dutch painters rose to civic eminence.

Rembrandt became a bankrupt, Frans Hals was on the rates, Jan Steen drank all his earnings.

Of all Terburg's great contemporaries Gerard Dou seems to have had most sense of prosperity and position; but his interests were wholly in his art.
Terburg is not the only famous name at Zwolle.


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