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Chap. XII.
ROYAL PITCURE GALLERY.
191
frame, everything appeared dark, so Kubens executed
the picture in his most glowing colouring. The
convent was suppressed in 1793, and, during the
occupation of Antwerp by the French, was turned into a
stable. What became of the epitaphium I know not;
the picture disappeared, and eventually found its way
into the collection of the King of Denmark.
The portrait, by Vandyke, of an English lady of the
court of Charles I., holding in her hand a rose, is a great
beauty. I was unable to find out who she was. By Both
there are two good pictures; one, a Sunrise in the environs
of Terui, with groups of shepherds driving their cattle by
the side of the streamlet, is a glorious specimen of this
favourite master; Woodburn, when at Copenhagen,
some years since, pronounced this painting to be one of
the “ imperial pictures of Europe.” The second, a
Muleteer descending a mountain pass, warm and sunny,
has been considerably injured.
Of Aldert van Everdingen* little is known out of
Denmark. A Dutchman by birth, he was much
employed in the painting of ceilings in Holland, as
Verrio and La Guerre were in England somewhat later.
Wishing to procure employment, he determined to visit
that country, and try his fortune, after the restoration
of Charles II. He expected probably to find protection
among the Cavaliers, perhaps from the king himself,
whom he had met with in Holland during their exile:
he embarked on board a merchant vessel, and
somehow, encountering a terrific storm, got wrecked (the
sailors must have been drunk or the compass gone
distracted to steer so far out of their course) on the
* Ob. 1675.
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