".. We also noticed that in this specialty, [the section landscape-painting], which must be based so entirely on a faithful study of nature, the way which our old [Dutch Golden Age] masters followed with so much fame - some artists start to leave that golden way more and more, to the disadvantage of their works and of art in general. This was mainly to be seen in the paintings of a 'young and very promising artist [Wijnand Nuijen], who starts to tilt increasingly to the Romantic way of taste, and, being dragged along by the fashion spirit of recent time, seems to prefer an easy effect without truth and naturalness above a powerful and vivid expression of objects. (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"
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Wijnand Nuijen
Wijnand Nuijen (The Hague, 4 March 1813 – 2 June 1839) was a Dutch painter and print-maker who specialized in romantic landscapes; he was greatly influenced by the French Romantics.
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