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 538 Painting (c) Butch Painters of Landscapes and Battle Scenes, Jan van Goyen (1596 — 1656), a disciple of Esais van der Velde, was one of the best landscape painters of his time in Holland. Among other works by him, the Amsterdam Gallery contains a View on the Meitse, and the old Castle of Valkenhof. /, Jan Wynants (painting till 1679) commences the cycle of real Dutch landscape painters. He is both popular and well represented in England, in the National Gallery — which has five works by him — and in private collections. He excelled in the treatment of delicate aerial effects and details of foliage. Figures and animals were frequently painted in Wynants's landscapes by other artists. Aelbert Cuyp (1605—1691), who is principally known for his pictures of animals, painted portraits with success, and also fruit, flowers, still-life, landscapes and sea pieces. His best works are in England. In the National Gallery there are no less than eight pictures by him ; of these the Landscape with Cattle and figures [No. 53] is the principal. English private galleries are rich in his productions : amongst others, the Duke of Westminster, Lord Ellesmere, and Mrs. Hope of Deepdene, possess good works. Cuyp's pictures frequently represent the banks of a river with a herdsman tending cattle, and they are bathed in the warm golden light of the setting sun. It is chiefly for their splendid realization of light that his works are so highly prized. Cornells Decker (1643 — 1678) is a master whose works long passed as the production of Ruysdael. Adriaan van Ostade rendered him the same service that Adriaan van