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Organized in roughly chronological order, the exhibit includes a recently discovered work by Bruegel and seven drawings by Rembrandt, in addition to samples of work by other old masters, including Jacob von Ruisdael and Jacques de Gheyn II, whose “Three Studies of a Dragonfly” (c. 1600) is particularly stunning...
George and Maida Abrams, the owners of the pieces in the show, have spent years amassing a large collection of drawings. The exhibit includes works by de Gheyn, van Ostade and Rembrandt and his pupils, among others. These drawings were valued in 17th century Holland as independent works; in other countries, such pieces were merely preliminary sketches for paintings...
...jewel-encrusted gold snuff boxes, figurines and rings from the famous Rothschild collection. In South London, a burglar climbed to the roof of Dulwich College, smashed a skylight, descended into the art gallery and used a crowbar to wrench from the wall Rembrandt's painting of Jacob de Gheyn III, worth $5 million. Police roared up within three minutes to find both thief and painting gone...
...conveys at least an idea of the collection's extraordinary range and quality. Lugt's taste was not for the quick scribble, but for clear, developed, informative drawings. The major names of 17th century Dutch painting are there: Hendrick Goltzius, Aelbert Cuyp, Jacques de Gheyn, Pieter Saenredam, Hendrick Avercamp, Ferdinand Bol. So are scores of lesser figures, known mainly to the specialist, but always represented by drawings of considerable grip and finesse...
Alfred's biggest bell, weighing about a half ton, is also its oldest, cast in 1674 by Pieter Hemony of Amsterdam, ablest bell founder of his time. The youngest bell in the collection was cast in 1784 by another famed bellman, Van den Gheyn of Malines. The 35 assorted bells were assembled and tuned-by scraping metal from the lower "lip" and the inner surface-by Jef Denyn, director of the Belgian National School of the Carillon. The carillon, housed temporarily in a wooden tower on the Alfred campus, was played publicly for the first time last week...