Crossword-Solution: GOYEN 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The old Dutch painters loved them, Their pictures show them fair,-- Old Hobbema and Ruysdael, Van Goyen and Vermeer.

The old Dutch painters loved them, Their pictures show them clear,-- Old Hobbema and Ruysduel, Van Goyen and Vermeer, Above the level landscape, Rich polders, long-armed mills, Canals and ancient cities,-- Float Holland's heavenly hills.

Who, after this, shall have the hardihood to speak evil of the grape? Jan is not supposed to have lived at Leyden after his marriage to Margaretta van Goyen, in 1649, until 1669, when his father died.

Van Goyen, who was a kindly creature, as became the father-in-law of Jan Steen, called out to his other pupils--"Berg hem" (Hide him!) and the phrase stuck, and became his best-known name.

That painters of ordinary merit should be forthcoming is, as I have said, no wonder: the mystery is that masters of technique whose equal has never been before or since should have arisen in such numbers; that in the space of a few years--between say 1590 and 1635--should have been born in a country never before given to the cultivation of the arts Rembrandt and Jan Steen, Vermeer and De Hooch, Van der Helst and Gerard Dou, Fabritius and Maes, Ostade and Van Goyen, Potter and Ruisdael, Terburg and Cuyp.