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To see Haarlem and its environs in June when the bulb farms are alight with tulips must be a delightful spectacle. In the fall of the year you are perforce content to read the names of the various farms as the train passes. The many-coloured vegetable carts remind you that Snyders and Van Steen painted here. The Groote Kerke, St. Bavo, at Haarlem, is a noble pile with a tall tower.
Bavo, where Hubert van Eyck had been interred. Karl van Mander, an early writer on Flemish art, was poetically enthusiastic in praise of Margaretha, calling her "a gifted Minerva, who spurned Hymen and Lucina, and lived in single blessedness." A Madonna in the National Gallery in London is attributed to Margaretha van Eyck. <b>FACIUS, ANGELIKA.</b> Born at Weimar. 1806-87.
The subject was a favourite of Weyden; there is a triptych in Berlin and a panel at The Hague. This Brussels picture has evidently been shorn of its wings. Another striking tableau is the head of a woman who weeps. The minutest tear is not missing. Bavo, Ghent. They are gigantic figures, nude, neither graceful nor attractive, but magnificently painted.
Haarlem, on the river Spaarne, stands out distinct in recollection from all other Dutch towns, for it has the most picturesque market-place in Holland the Groote Markt surrounded by quaint houses of varied outline, amid which rises the Groote Kerk of S. Bavo, a noble cruciform fifteenth-century building. The interior, however, is as bare and hideous as all other Dutch churches.
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