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From the hardships of a long and arduous war with Spain the seventeenth century Dutch seem to have drawn strength and expressed pride in their unique social and cultural heritage especially in their art Arthur K Wheelock Jr. Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century book review the Gallery s curator of northern Baroque painting hascarefully studied the Gallery s collection by masters of the Golden Age of Dutch art notably Cuyp De Hooch Rembrandt Ruisdael and Vermeer The twenty three paintings by Rembrandt and his school are elucidated by an essay on the question of attribution while an appendix of artists signaturesamplifies and supports the author s wide ranging discussions of this remarkably cohesive collection Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century A Publication of the National Gallery of Art Washington Arthur K Wheelock Jr is the curator of the Northern European Art Collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and professor of art history at the University of Maryland He has lectured widely and written extensively on Dutch and Flemish art.