901. A LANDSCAPE.

_Jan Looten_ (Dutch: about 1618-1681).

Looten is said to have visited England in the reign of Charles

II., in order (as a countryman of his explains) "to initiate

the English into the beauties of Dutch landscape." The process

was successful, for many large pictures by Looten are (or were)

in English country-seats. The figures in his landscapes were

sometimes painted by Berchem.

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