[A Wanderer in Holland by E. V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Holland CHAPTER XI 8/22
Van der Heist and Frans Hals are sinking to the level of gifted amateurs.
Why did not Rembrandt paint all the pictures? you begin to wonder.
And yet the Hals and the Van der Helsts were so good a little while ago. Hals and Van der Helst are, however, to recover their own again; for the "Night Watch," I am told, is to be moved to a building especially erected for it, where the lighting will be more satisfactory than connoisseurs now consider it.
Perhaps it is as well.
It is hard to be so near the rose; and there are few pictures in the recesses of the Gallery of Honour which the "Night Watch" does not weaken; some indeed it makes quite foolish. It is not of course really a night watch at all.
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