Identifier: artofnetherlandg00prey (find matches)
Title: The art of 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: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Preyer, David C. (David Charles), 1861-1913
Subjects: Art museums Painting
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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the distant sea, and cattlegrazing the thin pasturage. Heemskerck vanBeests sea view shows the Isle of Wight in thedistance like a heavy gray mass looming on thehorizon; and W. A. van Deventer has the oceanin the last throes of a departed storm, while vari-ous figures on the beach are coming or going tocollect the flotsam and jetsam of the wreck in theforeground. S. L. Verveer shows a number offisherfolk on the lookout for the approaching pinks.J. L. Cornet depicted the touching farewell of Ad-miral de Ruyter from his family, on leaving forthe naval conflict which the sea-hero felt was tobe his fatal journey. Three of the van de Sande Bakhuyzen family arerepresented. The oldest one, Hendrik, with a land-scape, in the manner of the year in which it waspainted, 1826. J. J. van de Sande Bakhuyzen hasa view in the old part of The Hague, and one ofthe mediaeval castles which are still found in Hol-land, the House Oudaen near Breukelen. Hissister Gerardina shows a basket of roses with beau-
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