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A Wanderer in Holland

CHAPTER III
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We have two in the National Gallery.

I have reproduced opposite page 30 his beautiful quiet view of the town in the Ryks Museum.

Dort has changed but little since then; the schooner would now be a steamer--that is almost all.

The reproduction can give no adequate suggestion of Cuyp's gift of diffusing golden light, his most precious possession.
Another Dort painter, below Albert Cuyp in fame, but often above him, I think, in interest and power, is Nicolas Maes, born in 1632--a great year in Dutch art, for it saw the birth also of Vermeer of Delft and Peter de Hooch.

Maes, who studied in Rembrandt's studio, was perhaps the greatest of all that master's pupils.


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