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"Going to the Ferry" - painted by Wouvermans, [17th century], 1856. 'With a special view to effective colour, [Wouvermans] almost invariably introduced a grey horse in a prominent position, and with the happiest result....The merit of his pictures was not acknowledged in his lifetime; their exchangeable value was not known to him in his own day; so that although he worked with extreme assiduity down to the period of his death, in the prime and vigour of life (1668), it was with difficulty that he earned the pittance wherewith to maintain himself and his family'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.