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Excerpt from Dutch Painting in the Nineteenth CenturyIf, nevertheless, we insist upon considering these three painters as offshoots of our great century, then we must needs add that they were the last effort of an exhausted soil. The art of painting declined into the art of decoration or scene-painting, the pain ter's workshop was transformed into the tapestry factory. The minute, concentrated charm of our socalled little masters expanded itse...
Excerpt from Dutch Painting in the Nineteenth CenturyIf, nevertheless, we insist upon considering these three painters as offshoots of our great century, then we must needs add that they were the last effort of an exhausted soil. The art of painting declined into the art of decoration or scene-painting, the pain ter's workshop was transformed into the tapestry factory. The minute, concentrated charm of our socalled little masters expanded itse...
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Gerharda/Grada Hermina Marius (1854-1919) was a Dutch art historian, critic, and painter. She studied at the Amsterdam Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1883 lived in The Hague. Between 1895 and 1907, she was art critic for the newspaper Het Vaderland, and from 1907-1916, for Het Nieuws van den Dag. She authored and translated many works on art and artists.