"Last week I was with Bilders.. .I saw a beautiful landscape of him, the village Vorden, illuminated by the evening twilight, with Cows in the Foreground. very poetical, and the true color of Father Bilders, as always.- (translation from Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek)."

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version in original Dutch (citaat over Johannes Warnardus Bilders, in Nederlands): Verleden week was ik bij Bilders.. .Een mooi landschap zag ik bij hem, 't dorp Vorden en door de avond schemering verlicht, met Koeien op de Voorgrond. zeer poetisch, en de echte kleur van Vader Bilders, als altijd.- — Quote of in a letter to his daughter Thérèse Schwartze, 22 Juin, 1879; taken from an excerpt of the letter in the RKD-Archive, The Hague