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A concise guide for travelers to major Dutch picture galleries, it directs visitors through museums in The Hague, the Rijksmuseum, the Stedelijk, Haarlem town hall, and Rotterdam's Boijmans, highlighting celebrated and lesser-known paintings and the characteristics of Dutch seventeenth-century masters. The author explains stylistic traits — color, light, and composition — and surveys subjects from interiors and genre scenes to landscapes, marines, and still lifes, illustrating selections with numerous plates. Drawing on established critics and official catalogues, the text aims to tell the casual visitor what to see and what to look for in a painting, offering clear, accessible commentary rather than exhaustive scholarship.


FOOTNOTES:

[1] This picture, representing Dr. Johan Deyman's lecture in anatomy, was partly burned in the eighteenth century, and the fragment now hangs in the Rijks with the other collection of anatomical pictures from the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam.

[2] The figures in this landscape were painted by Lingelbach.

[3] Blanc.

[4] Crowe.

[5] Bredius.

[6] Crowe.

[7] Crowe.

[8] Crowe.

[9] Blanc.

[10] Crowe.

[11] Crowe.

[12] Reynolds.

[13] Dr. Bredius.

[14] Crowe.

[15] Blanc.

[16] In the Louvre.

[17] Hymans.

[18] Blanc.

[19] Greef (Grif, Grifir, or Gryef), Anton, Flemish painter of landscapes with dogs and dead game, born at Antwerp in 1670; died in Brussels in 1715. He is supposed to have been a pupil of Frans Synders. There seem to have been two painters of the same name.

[20] Victor, Jakob or Giacomo, Dutch painter of the seventeenth century. Pictures by him are in Dresden, Copenhagen, and Munich; in the latter, his Barnyard bears the forged signature of Hondecoeter.

[21] Blanc.

[22] Crowe.

[23] J. F. White.

[24] Burger.

[25] J. A. Crowe.

[26] Blanc.

[27] H. Smissaert.

[28] G. H. Marius.

[29] H. Smissaert.