1005. PLOUGHING.

_Nicolas Berchem_ (Dutch: 1620-1683). _See 78._

"There is in this small picture," says Sir Edward Poynter, "a genuine

feeling for nature, which is generally somewhat wanting in the works

of Berchem, whose manner, founded on the study of Italian landscape

art, gives frequently an artificial effect to his composition"

(_National Gallery_, i. 44).

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