_Jan Wynants_ (Dutch: about 1615-1679). _See 883._
It is not uninteresting to notice--as strangely in keeping with the
poor and hard country here depicted--that in nearly every picture by
Wynants (see 883, 971, 972) there is a dead tree. That Dutch painters
were alive to the beauties of vegetation, the oaks of Ruysdael are
enough to show; but to Wynants at least nature seems to have been
visible only as a destroying power, as a rugged and conflicting force,
against which the sturdy Hollander had to battle for existence as best
he might.