It is as though he did not paint light but found light on his canvas and painted everything else in its midst.
Rotterdam has some excellent pictures in its Boymans Museum; but they are, I fancy, overlooked by many visitors.

It seems no city in which to see pictures.

It is a city for anything rather than art--a mercantile centre, a hive of bees, a shipping port of intense activity.

And yet perhaps the quietest little Albert Cuyp in Holland is here, "De Oude Oostpoort te Rotterdam," a small evening scene, without cattle, suffused in a golden glow.

But all the Cuyps, and there are six, are good--all inhabited by their own light.
Among the other Boymans treasures which I find I have marked (not necessarily because they are good--for I am no judge--but because I liked them) are Ferdinand Bols fine free portrait of Dirck van der Waeijen, a boy in a yellow coat; Erckhart's "Boaz and Ruth," a small sombre canvas with a suggestion of Velasquez in it; Hobbema's "Boomrijk Landschap," one of the few paintings of this artist that Holland possesses.