Dutch painters of the nineteenth century. With biographical notices (1898)
Rooses, Max, 1839-1914 · London, S. Low, Marston and Company · leaf 339
ly well painted but the arrangement was easy and graceful, which cannot be said of most pictures of that kind. Now no exhibition, either in Holland or Belgium, is complete without at least one portrait by De Jong. The splendid portrait of his mother (page 244) ; the portrait of Charles Rochussen… … These qualities were observed in his earliest ruddier, water-colour drawings, one of which was bought by Mesdag for his celebrated collection. Who does not remember his “ Office Clerk.” He could have sold the picture a hundred times over had he been willing to repeat the subject. But painting the…
Painters · Painting, Dutch
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