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The Landscape and Pastoral Painters of Holland (1891)
Ruisdael, Hobbema, Cuijp, Potter, The Landscape and Pastoral Painters
of Holland
By Frank Cundall
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Book Description: New York: Scribner and Welford, 1891, New York, 1891.
Decorative Cloth. Book Condition: Good. Presumed first edition. 12mo -
over 6=BE" - 7=BE" tall. Decorative Cloth. 12mo - over 6=BE" - 7=BE" tall.
Red cloth stamped with elaborate design in black. Floral endpapers.
Frontspiece with protective tissue. 176 pp. followed by 6 pp. of
advertising. 28 additional illustrations. Bibliography of Dutch
Pastoral Painters. Introduction. Text followed by list of paintings for
each artist and index. Antique ex-library book Informal library
writing on spine and other usual library markings. Overall good
condition.
This is a rare item. A search on the internet revealed only one other
copy of this book for sale and it was in similar condition and priced
at $160.00.
Artist Biographies
Jacob Van Ruisdael (1628-1682)
Baroque artist, often considered the greatest Dutch landscape painter.
Jacob van Ruisdael learned to paint from his father, a framemaker, art
dealer, and painter, and from his uncle, Solomon van Ruysdael. After
studying landscape painting in Germany for ten years, he settled in
Amsterdam. There he maintained a flourishing painting studio, where he
trained the next generation of Dutch landscape painters, including
Meindert Hobbema.Ruisdael's dramatic, naturalistic rendering of
landscapes and his emotional use of color support his reputation as the
principal Dutch landscape painter in the second half of the 1600s. His
masterful compositions, meticulous draftsmanship, and thick impasto
made quiet subjects such as trees or the flat Dutch countryside into
deep sources of contemplation. Though earlier Dutch artists used trees
merely as decorative compositional devices, Ruisdael imbued them with
forceful personalities. Similarly, the vast, clouded skies looming over
low, distant horizons inject tension into his panoramic landscapes.
In addition to making seven hundred paintings and one hundred drawings,
Ruisdael received a medical degree in 1676 and probably pursued a
successful second career as a surgeon. Ruisdael's influence was
resounding, both on his Dutch contemporaries and on artists in other
countries in the following two centuries - Gainsborough, Constable,
and the Barbizon School for example. Examples of his work are in many
public collections, the finest representation being in the National
Gallery, London.
Meyndert Hobbema (1638 - 1709)
Dutch landscape painter. He worked in his native Amsterdam, where he
was the friend and only documented pupil of Jacob van Ruisdael. Some of
his pictures are very like Ruisdael's, but his range was more limited
and he lacked the latter's power to capture the majesty of nature. He
painted a narrow range of favourite subjects - particularly
water-mills and trees around a pool - over and over again. In 1668 he
became a wine gauger with the Amsterdam customs and excise, and
thereafter seems to have painted only in his spare time. However, his
most famous work, The Avenue at Middelharnis (National Gallery,
London), dates from 1689. Hobbema has long been a popular artist in
England (his influence is clear in Gainsborough's early landscapes) and
he is outstandingly well represented in English collections.
Aelbert Cujip (1620-91)
Aelbert Cujip is the most famous member of a family Dutch painters of
Dordrecht and ne of the most celebrated of all landscape painters,
although he also painted many other subjects. He was the son and
probably the pupil of Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp. His early works also show
the influence of Jan van Goyen.Aelbert was born and died at Dordrecht,
but he seems to have travelled along Holland's great rivers to the
eastern part of the Netherlands, and he also painted views of
Westphalia. A prodigious number of pictures are ascribed to him, but
his oeuvre poses many problems. He often signed his paintings but
rarely dated them, and a satisfactory chronology has never been
established. Although he had little influence outside Dordrecht, Cuyp
had several imitators there, and some of the paintings formerly
attributed to him are now given to Abraham Calraet (1642-1722), who
signed himself 'AC' (the same initials as Cuyp).
In 1658 Cuyp married a rich widow, and in the 1660s he seems to have
virtually abandoned painting. He was almost forgotten for two
generations after his death. Late 18th-century English collectors are
credited with rediscovering his merits, and he is still much better
represented in English collections, public and private, than in Dutch
museums. His finest works - typically river scenes and landscapes with
placid, dignified-looking cows - show great serenity and masterly
handling of glowing light (usually Cuyp favored the effects of the
early morning or evening sun). He approaches Claude more closely in
spirit than any of his countrymen who travelled to Italy.
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Paulus Potter (1625 - 1654)
Dutch painter and etcher, celebrated chiefly for his paintings of
animals. Animals appear prominently in all of Potter's works, sometimes
singly but usually in small groups silhouetted against the sky, or in
greater numbers with peasant figures and rustic buildings in an
extensive landscape. Potter is one of the minor Dutch masters.Potter
entered the Guild of St. Luke at Delft in 1646. In 1649 he moved to The
Hague, where in the following year he married Adriana, daughter of the
architect Claes van Balkeneynde. In 1652 Potter settled in Amsterdam.
He probably received his early training from his father, the painter
Pieter Potter (c. 1597-1652), but his style shows little dependence
upon that of earlier masters. In so short a career there was little
development in style between the earlier and the later works, but 1647
seems to mark a peak in his achievement, for many of the finest
paintings bear this date.
Among works that depart from his normal scale or style, the huge Young
Bull (1647; Mauritshuis, The Hague), which is life-size, is his most
celebrated, though not necessarily his finest work, while Orpheus
Charming the Beasts (1650; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) is an excursion into
a poetic world. Potter's etchings of animals show all the skill and
sympathy of his paintings. The starting price for this item is $7.99. A
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