Excerpt from Catalogue of Paintings and Water Colors: Collection of the Holland Art Galleries The first comprehensive presentation of the modern Dutch school of painting to the people of the United States was made at the Chicago Exposition of 1893, where Mr. Preyer was in charge of the Holland section of the Art Department. That exhibition made a very favorable impression on amateurs and connoisseurs, and was to many something like a revelation. A few of the leading painters of Holland were known here previous to that time, but it was not generally known that the serious feeling which characterizes the work of Mauve, Israels, and Maris runs generally through the school, and is to be found in a number of painters who until recently were little known in this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.