823. ON THE MEUSE.
Cuyp (Dutch: 1620-1691). See 53.
Notice the reflections. Cuyp "is a man of large natural gift, and sees broadly, nay, even seriously; finds out—a wonderful thing for men to find out in those days—that there are reflections in the water, and that boats require often to be painted upside down" (Modern Painters, vol. v. pt. ix. ch. vi. § 12).
824. A RUINED CASTLE.
Cuyp (Dutch: 1620-1691). See 53.
The castle may be the same as that seen in No. 1289. Some lines from Beattie's "Scotland" have been applied to it:—
Behold our lakes ...
Each girdled with its mountain belt
Of rock and tower and forest trees,
And gemmed with island sanctuaries
Like floating palaces, they seem
The elysium of a poet's dream.
This picture was originally bought at Horn, in the Netherlands, of an old clothesman, for 1s. 3d. Sir Robert Peel paid 350 guineas for it.