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Title: The Netherland galleries : being a history of the Dutch school of painting, illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in the many galleries
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Preyer, David C. (David Charles), 1861-1913
Subjects: Art museums Painting
Publisher: Boston : St. Botolph Society
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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Maris, although the other Hague mastershad great influence over him. He has developedinto a puissant master, steadily progressing sinceas a boy of sixteen he came to the Hague Academywith the best composition ever submitted by anaspirant. It was a canvas with galloping dragoons,that was wonderful in its action and realism —you could see the dust fly. Later he devoted him-self to the tram-car horse, and then to the pictur-esque scenes of newly laid-out streets with the in-evitable heavy dray-horses carting the building ma-terials, or to dock and shipyard views with theirgraphic portrayal of laborious activity. His pow-erful, passionate colour scheme, and his nervous,virile drawing make him one of the strongest char-acters of the present school — he may be calledthe Dutch Brangwyn. A. J. der Kinderen (born 1859) shows his train-ing in the Brussels Academy by the classicism ofhis figure compositions. Paul Rink (1860-1903) won in 1887 at the Am-sterdam Academy the Prix de Rome, which
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Plate xxvi(See page 260) Ube £1£ Century Butcb painters 201 enabled him to travel some years in Italy, Spainand Algeria. At first he was impressed with thesymbolic tendency of his time, but his original,realistic talent took the upper hand, and his cul-tured, refined nature enabled him to produce manycanvases full of emotional feeling. Much was ex-pected of him when in his forty-third year he diedsuddenly. W. B. Tholen (born i860), a pupil of Gabriel,has produced many landscapes, broadly painted andfull of atmosphere. Willem Witsen (born i860) followed the Gym-nasium of Amsterdam for a few years, but thenturned to art. After establishing an enviable rep-utation as an etcher, he took up painting in oil andhas produced several canvases, especially winterviews, in which the values of snow are admirablygiven. Jan Toorop was born the same year in Java.His years of adolescence were spent in that EastIndian paradise, and his intercourse with Chinese,Arabian and Javanese playmates, and the

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