nd on an eminence are the ruins of a
castle.

Some fine works by Rembrandt are in England, and very large prices have
been paid for them. In 1867 "Christ Blessing Little Children" was sold for
seven thousand pounds. At the San Donato sale in Florence, in 1880,
"Lucretia" brought twenty-nine thousand two hundred dollars, and a
"Portrait of a Young Woman" nearly as much.

Among Rembrandt's pupils Gerbrandt van der Eeckhout holds a high rank, and
his pictures are seen in many galleries.

Among the landscape painters of Holland ALBERT CUYP (1605-1691) is very
famous. He sometimes introduced figures and animals into his pictures, but
they were of secondary importance; the scenery was his chief thought. His
works are in many galleries, and the increase in their value is
marvellous. Sir Robert Peel bought a landscape, twelve by twenty inches
in size, for which he paid three hundred and fifty guineas: it was
originally sold in Holland for about one English shilling! During the
first century after his death no picture by Cuyp brought more than thirty
florins; now they cost almost their weight in gold.

Other fine landscape painters were Jan and Andries Both, Jan van Goyen,
Jan Wynants, Adrian van de Velde, and, finally, PHILIP WOUVERMAN
(1619-1668), who introduced much life into his works. He painted battles,
hunting parties, and such subjects as allowed him to introduce white
horses, for which he became noted. His works, as well as those of the
other painters last mentioned, are valuable. There are so many in
galleries which are attributed to Wouverman that it is doubtful if they
are all genuine. He had animation and fine feeling for the picturesque.
His execution was light and delicate, and there is much tenderness shown
in his works. There were many excellent Dutch landscape painters whom we
have not mentioned.

PAUL POTTER (1625-1654) was born at Enkhuysen, and though he died young he
made himself a great and enduring reputation by his pictures of animals.
"Paul Potter's Bull," which is in the gallery at the Hague, is as well
known as any one picture the world over. He left one hundred and eight
pictures and eighteen etchings. He was most successful in representing
cattle and sheep; his horses are not as fine. He never crowded his
pictures; they have an open landscape, but few animals, and perhaps a
shepherd, and that is all. Some of his pictures have been valued as high
as fifty thousand dollars.

JACOB RUYSDAEL (162