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LANDSCAPE AND WOODLAND 

 PICTURES BY THE MASTER 

 PAINTERS. 



Pursuing our plan of giving examples 

 of the work of the greater landscape 

 painters, we have this month to intro- 

 duce one of Wijnants', who, though 



ing should be. Not so much is known 

 of his life as of those of other great 

 Dutch artists, but he is believed to 

 have been born in Haarlem about the 

 year 1615. His pictures are to be 

 seen in many of the great galleries 

 of Europe. 



LANDSCAPE 



WIJNANTS. 



not among the greatest of the Dutch 

 painters, is yet extremely interesting 

 for his true drawing of the trees of his 

 country. He was an excellent observer, 

 but, like most of the older artists, was 

 governed by the conventionalities of his 

 day, and hence his pictures are often 

 made up of separate incidents very well 

 drawn, rather than giving the whole 

 effect of the scene as viewed in beauti- 

 ful states of nature. This has the effect 

 of weakening the attention. His smaller 

 works are often simpler and truer to 

 one view, as a great landscape paint- 



The Selborne Yew. — Several of our readers 

 have pointed out that R. S. J. is mistaken in 

 saying that White's "Natural History of Sel- 

 borne" contains no reference to this tree. E. 

 T. B. Reece kindly writes as follows : — R. S.J. 

 on"TheYew in Hampshire" in your last issue 

 was in error in supposing that Gilbert White 

 took no notice of the magnificent Yew in Sel- 

 borne Churchyard. I find that in Letter 5 on 

 the " Antiquities of Selborne " he gives the 

 circumference of the trunk as 23 feet and says 

 that it supports a headsuitable to its bulk. He 

 also states that it is a male tree and is probably 

 coeval with the church. 



There is no art or occupation comparable to planting. 

 It is full of past, present, and future enjoyment. — ■ 

 Sir W. Scott. 



