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When John Evelyn in 1641 thus recorded the flourishing artistic life of Holland, Jan Vermeer of Delft, who was to become the most finished realist of the Dutch School, was just nine years old. Last fortnight, visitors at a far greater fair-Queen Wilhelmina's Jubilee (TIME, Sept. 12)-found Rotterdam again furnished with pictures, and the greatest attraction of all was a painting by Jan Vermeer. Displayed among 450 Netherlands-owned masterpieces at the Boymans Museum, Christ at Emmaus (see cut) is no drollery but one of the three religious paintings ascribed to the artist. To Netherlanders...
...arranging the trade pact was a close-cropped Knight of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer Pieter Jacob Six, owner of the world's greatest collection of Rembrandts, four of them portraits of members of his own family. Jonkheer Six likes to point out that both the U. S. and Holland are creditor nations, that their trade needs complement each other. Last January he and Dr. E. H. von Baumhauer went to the U. S. to see about forming an organization to spur mutual trade...
...burghers soon turned their scheme over to Fenton B. Turck Jr., youthful vice president of American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. and a trustee of New York's Holland Society...
Energetic Yaleman Turck last month officially announced the formation of Holland House, with such potent directors as Chase National's Winthrop Aldrich, International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson, Standard Oil of New Jersey's W. S. Farish, Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon...
Last week Holland House had a guaranteed yearly income of $100,000, was functioning temporarily in Radio City's International Building until its new headquarters are built. Said President Fenton Turck: "Holland House will serve as a clearing house for trade and financial transactions between the two countries, providing a focal point, heretofore lacking, for the establishment of contacts and for initiating and carrying on negotiations...