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A patch of sunlight lights up the thatched roof of an old watermill and the white foam of the turbulent river passing. Allart van Everdingen has made little of the wheel that marks the cottage as a mill – he has concentrated on the mood created by the water and the colours of the surrounding landscape. Many watermills were being abandoned at this time in Holland; perhaps the artist was suggesting that this one too has outlived its usefulness. The day shown is a chill one, but there’s no smoke coming from the mill’s chimney. In the 1640s van Everdingen had travelled in Norway and he returned to Haarlem with drawings and sketches of the landscape there, very different to the flat Dutch terrain – waterfalls, mountains and tall, coniferous trees.
Title
A Saw-mill by a Torrent
Date
about 1670
Medium
Oil on oak
Measurements
H 44.8 x W 60.3 cm
Accession number
NG1701
Acquisition method
Presented by George H. Boughton RA, 1900
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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