author: harry john wilmot buxton

... Dutch School , which , within a period of less than a century , between the birth of Frans Hals ( 1584 ) , and that of Jan van Huysum ( 1682 ) , contained the greatest painters which Holland has ever produced . The birth of Dutch art ...

... painter , and founder of the " Beefsteak Club . " This latter distinction ... marine painter of the school of the Van de Veldes , whose pupil he may have ... place . Wilson's early taste for drawing attracted THE ROYAL ACADEMY AND ITS ...