This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...the Stirrup Cup, dark in tone, and the Fishwife, wonderfully brilliant in colour; the fish it seems almost possible to smell and touch. There is also a Metsu in Lord Bute's Collection. Formerly, many Metsus existed in French private collections, but most of these have left France in recent years. There ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...the Stirrup Cup, dark in tone, and the Fishwife, wonderfully brilliant in colour; the fish it seems almost possible to smell and touch. There is also a Metsu in Lord Bute's Collection. Formerly, many Metsus existed in French private collections, but most of these have left France in recent years. There was a famous picture by this artist in Cardinal Fesch's Gallery, which was sold at Borne, in 1845, for more than 74,000 francs. M. Delepert has also a fine work by this master. At Copenhagen, the Count A. G. de Moltke has a superb picture by him. It is uncertain whether Metsu had pupils; but for a fact the mysterious Ver Meer, of Delft, imitated Metsu's manner closely, painting also similar subjects, but in a bolder and larger manner. Uchterveldt and Michiel van Musscher were both pupils of Gabriel Metsu. NICOLAAS MAES. Born 1632.--Died 1693. WE should feel puzzled if we had the choice given us between a good example of Pieter de Hooch and one of Nicolaas Maes's pictures. There is much likeness in the subjects which these two charming painters placed on their canvases; much resemblance between them also in the superb colouring and perfect grouping of themfigures: these two artists, with Ver Meer, of Delft, have in their way never been surpassed, and it would be no easy question to answer which is the greatest of the three. It is a matter of doubt whether De Hooch and Ver Meer were pupils of Rembrandt, but it is certain that Maes studied under him. During his lifetime, and until the end of last century, Maes was chiefly known as a portrait painter. When he visited Jordaens at Antwerp, he was questiohed by that artist what manner of painting he practised. Maes replied, "I am but a portrait painter." His reputation is, however, not...
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