"An architect, who was a great lover of art, once said to the writer [= E.B. Greenshields himself!] 'From that point of view, Bosboom is all wrong. He does not draw correctly from the architect's standpoint, but he does something far more difficult and much finer. He gives us the effect of airy atmospheric spacious interiors. He reaches the end he sought splendidly, and produces wonderfully beautiful and poetical pictures, but not architectural drawings."
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Quote of an unknown architect, c. 1905; as cited in Landscape Painting and Modern Dutch Artists, E. B. Greenshields; The Copp, Clark, Co. Limited, Toronto, 1906, pp. 129-130
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Johannes Bosboom
Johannes Bosboom (The Hague, 18 February, 1817 – 14 September, 1891) was one of the well-known Dutch senior painters and water-colorists of the Hague School - famous especially for his painted church interiors.
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