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It is his genuine feeling for nature that makes Wynant's pictures so popular in England, where we meet with a considerable number of his best works. Though not always the most charming, Ruisdael is certainly the greatest and the most profound of the Dutch landscape painters.
The former painted hawking scenes, and his horses, though well designed, were not equal to those of Philips. The latter is represented in the National Gallery by a landscape in which the spirit of Wynant's, rather than that of Philips's, is discernible. At Hertford House, out of seven examples, two are of more than usual excellence, and well represent his earlier and later manners.
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