Observations upon the town of Cromer : $b considered as a watering place, and the picturesque scenery in its neighbourhoodBartell, Edmund
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Observations upon the town of Cromer : $b considered as a watering place, and the picturesque scenery in its neighbourhood
Bartell, Edmund
Cromer (England) -- Description and travel
In the drawing-room are several pictures; a Usurer by Rembrandt, and the
portrait of an Old Woman by the same master, supposed to be his Mother,
deserve particular attention; the latter is placed over the door by which
you enter the room but hangs too high. There are, also, some good
representations of Sea-Fights; one in particular a pretty large picture,
by Vanderveldt, Jun. is a very spirited performance; the effect of the
smoke, from the vessels in the foreground, which is made to receive the
light, is very masterly; the subject is the Engagement between the
English and Van Tromp, in which Sir Edward Spragge was killed. Its
companion by the elder Vanderveldt, is, also, a Sea-Fight, but a confused
and wholly uninteresting performance. Over each of these pieces, is a
Storm, by Vanderveldt, Jun. in his usual stile of excellence.
At the other end of the room are two very fine Views of the River Thames,
one at Billinsgate Market, the other before the alteration at London
Bridge;—over one of these pictures is a Landscape by Bergham, and over
the other a small but highly coloured picture, the Finding of Achilles at
the Court of Lycomedes, said to be by Reubens.
From the drawing-room you proceed to the cabinet. The small pictures are
by much the best; two or three Storms, by Vanderveldt, jun. in his best
manner; Cows Stalled, by Sagtleven, Scheveling Market, and a small
Landscape, by Paul Brill, are excellent; the trees of the latter are very
finely touched.
Some of the larger pictures are very good, particularly two Views, by G.
B. H. Busùri,—one of which is the Cascade of Terni.
The rest of the collection in this room is chiefly composed of Italian
Landscapes, and small Views of Italian Ruins in opaque colours.
One of the best pictures in the house is at present set aside; it is an
Italian Sea-Port in a Hazy Morning, every part of which is delicately
expressed.
The pictures above stairs are of little worth, neither is there much else
to attract the attention, except the library, which is fitted up with
much gothic elegance and admirably corresponding with the old stile of
building of the south front. The gloom thrown into the room by the
stained-glass windows and the sombre hue of the wainscot, which is of its
natural colour, make it a very proper retirement for study.
Two miles from Felbrigg stand the ruins of Beckham Old Church, which for
its size is one of the most elegant things which fancy can imagine. The
walls of the middle aisle and the chancel are standing, and, also, the
south porch. Beautiful fragments of the old gothic windows, in different
states of decay, are seen peeping through the ivy, which mantles in the
most luxuriant manner over almost the whole of its mouldering walls.
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