LANDSCAPE AND WOODLAND PICTURES. 



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g/oriosa, which Mr. Berckman says is fully 14 

 inches in diameter. The Bull Bay is oftenest 

 seen as a small tree, from 20 to 50 feet high, 

 planted on lawns and in parks or lining avenues. 

 In the forests of Lousiana, where it reaches 

 its greatest perfection, it stands 80 feet high, 

 with a trunk 4 feet thick, and Sargent calls 

 it ' the most splendid ornamental tree in the 

 American forests.' " 



much of the original brilliancy is lost, 

 and, as we now see it, often monotonous 

 or negative in tone; but even with these 

 drawbacks the effect of this picture is 

 superb, because the drawing is so true. 

 What eyesight and insight Hobbema 

 had for the facts of Nature may be seen 



LANDSCAPE BY HOBBEMA. 



LANDSCAPE AND WOODLAND 

 PICTURES BY THE MASTER 

 PAINTERS. 



Lovers of old Dutch painting are agreed 

 that Hobbema is among the greatest of 

 landscape painters, and in proof of this 

 we may cite the picture in the National 

 Gallery, which is certainly a fine exam- 

 ple of painting light and air. In the work 

 of the old Dutch landscape painters 



in that noble avenue-picture in our na- 

 tional collection, and though the artist 

 died in a workhouse, his work will live 

 so long as man has eyes for the true and 

 beautiful in landscape art. 



MeindertHobbema was born at Am- 

 sterdam in 1638 and died in 1709. He 

 was a contemporary of J. van Ruisdael, 

 and was supposed to be a pupil of Solo- 

 mon van Ruisdael. That he was held 



