but just cut at the wrist. There are seven other portraits coloured like nature itself, fresh and highly finished.. One of the figures behind has a paper in his hand, on which are written the names of the rest: Rembrandt has also added his own name, with the date, 1672. The dead body is perfectly well drawn, (a little foreshortened,) and seems to have been just washed. Nothing can be more truly the colour of dead flesh. The legs and feet, which are nearest the eye, are in shadow: the principal light, which is on the body, is by that means preserved of a compact form. All these figures are dressed in black. AMSTER DAM. BRANDT. Above stairs is another Rembrandt, REmof the same kind of subject; Professor Deeman standing by a dead body, which is so much foreshortened, that the hands and the feet almost touch each other: the dead man lies on his back with his feet towards the spectator. There is something sublime in the character of the head, which reminds one of Michael AMSTER Angelo; the whole is finely painted, the colouring much like Titian. DAM. HONDER-. HOOTER. J. STEEN. WEENINX OSTADE. GERARD THE CABINET OF MR. HOPE. Two swans, ducks, and peacocks; admirable. Merry making, two of the figures dancing. A dead swan, and dead hare: perfect every way; beyond Hondecooter. An excellent Vanderheyden. A Du Jardin; like Potter, but better than that which hangs below it. Two little beautiful Vanderveldes. A Rothenamer. Three figures, very natural: by Ostade. A woman asleep; a figure tickling her nose; a man lighting his pipe; a lantern, and a woman with a candle, behind. DAM. The Virgin in the clouds, surrounded AMSTERwith angels, by Vandyck. VANDYCK. CUYP. Cattle and a shepherd, by Albert ALBERT Cuyp, the best I ever saw of him; and the figure is likewise better than usual: but the employment which he has given the shepherd in his solitude is not very poetical: it must, however, be allowed to be truth and nature; he is catching fleas or something worse. A Vandervelde. VANDER VELDE. A Terburg. A lady playing on a TERBURG. guitar, dressed as usual in a white sattin petticoat, and a red gown edged with ermine. A Wouvermans. A Gabriel Metzu. -A Berghem.-A Metzu. Dead game, small, by P. Gyzen; GYZEN. highly finished, and well coloured. MANS. A Wouvermans, the best I ever saw. WOUVERA gentleman and lady on horseback ; he has an umbrella in his hand, and he DAM. AMSTER is talking to another horseman who has his hat off: a man before them playing on a bag-pipe, followed by a man and woman dancing; behind, at a distance, other figures dancing to another musician, who stands elevated against a great tree. A. VANDER- VANDER- A. VANDER VELDE. A Landscape by Adrian Vandervelde; very fine. A View of a church by Vanderheyden, his best; two black friars going up steps. Notwithstanding this picture is finished as usual very minutely, he has not forgot to preserve, at the same time, a great breadth of light. His pictures have very much the effect of nature, seen in a camera obscura. The inside of the great church at Antwerp, by Peter Neefs. A Landscape by Adrian Vandervelde; the outside of a garden : the highest and most successfully finished picture that perhaps there is in the world, of this painter; it is beautifully coloured, and has vast force. The cattle are finely AMSTERdrawn, and in very difficult attitudes. DAM. A view of Campo Vaccino, by Lin- LINGLEglebach. BACH. The death of Cleopatra, by Lairesse. LAIRESSE. Her figure is well drawn, and in an attitude of great grace; but the style is degraded by the naturalness of the white sattin, which is thrown over her. A woman lies dead at the feet of the bed. This picture is as highly finished as a Vanderwerf, but in a much better style, excepting the drapery, which is not equal to Vanderwerf. Vanderwerf painted what may be truly called drapery; this of Lairesse is not drapery, it is white sattin. A dead stag, by Weeninx. WEENINX. An oyster-feast by J. Steen, in which J.STEEN. is introduced an excellent figure of old Mieris, standing with his hands behind him. A woman reading a letter; the milk- MITZU. woman who brought it, is in the mean |
