Homes, Haunts, And Works of Rubens, Vandyke, Rembrandt, And Cuyp; the Dutch Genre-Painters; Michael Angelo And Raffaelle. Being a Series of Art-Rambles in Belgium, Holland And Italy
Homes, Haunts, And Works of Rubens, Vandyke, Rembrandt, And Cuyp; the Dutch Genre-Painters; Michael Angelo And Raffaelle. Being a Series of Art-Rambles in Belgium, Holland And Italy
Fairholt Frederick William
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Digitized by Google Digitized by Googk THE COUNTRY OF CUYP. Digitized by Google Digitized by Google Fig. 8i.— View of Dort. THE COUNTRY OF CUYP. |F the accepted characterisation of a nation's felicity, conveyed in the well-known aphorism, " Happy is the country whose history is a blank," may be equally applied to individuals, then may we safely conclude that the old Dutch painters were among the happiest of the sons of Adam. Their lives were generally so entirely void of what playwrights term "...incident," that we know little more of them than is conveyed in the three facts — that they were born in Holland; painted in the land of their birth ; and were buried very little distant from the spot on which they were born. Contented with R Digitized by Google 122 HOMES, HAUNTS, AND WORKS OF the calm monotony of their native land, they studied its narrowed sphere with so intense an application, and delineated it with so much truthfulness, that they imparted a charm to incidents and scenes the most unpromising, and arrested the attention of connoissexirs absorbed in the grander flights of Italian art, compelling, by the innate merits of their work, a place of honour to be assigned the Dutch school, as a creation, sui generis^ among the honoured of ** the world of art." It is with national painters as it is with national poets, they suflFer by translation.
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