50 HOltTlCUl/rUKAL TOUR. 



Van Biee of Antwerp, and represented tlie devoted heroism 

 of the burgomaster Van Werff during the siege of Leyden, 

 a subject which has been before treated, by masterly pen- 

 cils, and which still seems a favourite. Another by the 

 same painter represented the affecting story of Joanna 

 Sebus, which has been commemorated in one of the 

 odes of Goethe*. The Virgin Mary supplicating the 

 High Priest in the Temple of Jerusalem, by Van Huffel 

 of Ghent, appeared to us to be a picture respectably treated. 

 The Prince of Orange wounded at Waterloo, by Odevaere 

 of Brussels, was a tolerable painting, of large dimensions, the 

 principal figures being the size of life. A piece entitled 

 ^ riiumanite Beige," by Professor De Cauwer, of the Ghent 

 Academy, seemed happily conceived. It represented the 

 interior of a farm-yard, and the farmer, his wife, sons and 

 daughters, assisted by a Scots Highlander, who had been only 

 slightly hurt, anxiously engaged in endeavouring to succour 

 wounded soldiers of different nations, — Flemish, Prussians, 

 English dragoons, Hanoverians and Brunswickers. The 

 way in which our Highland countryman was thus in- 

 troduced, was probably intended to convey a delicate and 

 friendly compliment ; for the Montagnards d'Ecosse are 

 held in great estimation in the Low Countries. In ano- 

 ther piece, by J. F. Thys of ^Brussels, a wounded Scots 

 Highlander is the most prominent figure, with a very 

 pretty young woman carefully binding up his arm. The 

 -;n lie painter has, in another picture, given a lively repre- 

 sentation of the meeting of Wellington and Blucher at La 

 Belle Alliance in the moment of victory. The landscapes 

 were numerous: some of the best were by Dominique de 



wholly under the direction of a few of the distinguished connoisseurs of the 

 northern capital. 



■ Work ., fkutgard edit 1816, vol. ii. p. S3. 



