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Chap. XII.
ROYAL PICTURE GALLERY.
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himself is a charming painter, and seems to be more
ready with his pencil. Maat, Kleeger, and Zeemann,
all excellent. The latter began life as a common sailor,
without a name, fatherless, but with a talent for
painting. Whom he belonged to nobody knew or cared; his
shipmates called him “ René.” Finding he could turn
his talent to greater advantage on land than on the
ocean, he set up on his own account and adopted the
patronymic of Zeemann, in allusion to his former
occupation.
It would be tedious to describe the numerous cabinet
pictures by well-known masters, such as Gerard Dow
and Mieris, of whose pencils there are excellent
specimens; the portrait of Ulrik Frederic Gyldenløve, the
Field Marshal, date 1662, an exquisite little painting
by Mieris, will bear comparison with the best works of
this minutest of all artists.
By Denner, too, “ a Savant reading at his desk in
his dressing-gown,” the only pleasant work to gaze
upon that I know of by this artist, who spares,
generally, neither the imperfections of youth nor age.
Denner was much employed as a portrait-painter in
Denmark, where he resided for fifteen years; and in
the year 1717 he is said to have painted, at Husum,
twenty portraits of the reigning sovereign, Frederic IV.,
by whom he was invited to visit Copenhagen, where he
spent ten months. Among the numerous interiors of
the Dutch school, I must not omit a most
exquisitely-finished painting by Slingelandt, entitled “ The Interior
of a Dutch House.” Slingelandt was a pupil of Gerard
Dow, and an amateur artist, a man of wealth and
position, Burgomaster of Utrecht, who, painting for his own
gratification, had time to finish his work with the care
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