You can't sell anything to the museum nowadays. If one presents something now, one is partly rejected because they have no money in cash. Yes Friend,… - Andreas Schelfhout

..[both of us (Schelfhout ànd J.C. Schotel)] make each a painting that together will form one view, as it were [view of Scheveningen by Schotel / view of The Hague by Schelfhout].. ..[but] our paintings together will therefore not become one integrated thing, but only pendants.. .I have taken my drawing from the steps of the Pavilion [in Scheveningen], viewed over the dunes to [the city] The Hague. In the foreground, which is very bare and empty in reality, I have placed some trees. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

[four years younger!], you better paint houses, you better focus yourself on townscapes. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)

(original Dutch, citaat van Schelfhout, uit zijn brief:) Vrolijk en opgeruimt, ben ik weder met reuze schreden begonen aan het tweede schilderij van de Heer Twent. [van het Wassenaarse landgoed Raaphorst, toen in bezit van Abraham Jacob Twent, die het landgoed in twee grote schilderijen wilde laten vereeuwigen]