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" "I have experienced this country of the great mountains [Switzerland] superb! .. ..[but] I positively believe that nature, most appropriate to be reproduced in painting, is the modest landscape which seems just ordinarily and very insignificant. (translation from original French: Fons Heijnsbroek)
Willem Roelofs (Amsterdam, 10 March 1822 – Berchem, 12 May 1897) was a Dutch painter, water-colourist, etcher, lithographer and draughtsman. He was one of the forerunners of the Dutch The Hague school, after a short period painting in the Dutch Romantic movement, c. 1840-50's.
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I repainted the only unsold picture that was [exhibited] in Rotterdam last year. It seems to me that it looks quite pleasing and good now.. .I want you to ask him [the client] seven hundred guilders.. ..for six hundred as lowest price I would be willing to sell it and if you think - knowing him - it would be better to ask that price at once, so do it. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)
(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Het speet mij voor alle door U zoo ijverig aangewende moeite te vergeefsch is geweest, om hem van een der schilderijen in 'Arti' [in Amsterdam] af te helpen. Zou er geen kans bestaan om voor hem eens een klein gesoigneerd (door mij, als het helpen kan, gerugsteund) schilderij te bestellen voor den een of ander? Hij verdient het zoo dubbel en een honderd guldens kunnen op sommige oogenblikken zoo véél doen.
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(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) ..ik heb tenminste de overtuiging van opregt te zijn en heb geen grooter afschuw dan van alle.. ..vreemdsoortige kunstuitingen [oa. van ] de ziekte van onzen tijd.