2-979-592 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Landscape and Hawking Party" - painted by Berghem, in the Bridgewater Gallery, 1857. Engraving of a painting by '...one of the most pleasing masters of the seventeenth century, although occasionally falling into a sickly feminine prettiness in his colour. In this picture the subject is very finely chosen - a wide flowing river; the arches of an old Roman-looking bridge; a picturesque ruined tower on a rock, with mountain scenery in the distance, and the foreground enlivened by figures, cattle, and dogs, produce at once a cheerful and exhilarating sensation in the mind of the spectator. The composition of this picture shows, in our opinion, great learning and taste: all the component parts accord with each other; and the distribution of light is particularly agreeable'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.