“His pictures in fact appeal to the very sentiments that gave them birth; they reveal his intimate acquaintance with colour in all its gradations, his splendid contrasts of light and shadow. The charm they exert upon us is due in part to the grandeur of Maris's artistic sense, his power of sympathy, strength of conception, and his glorious schemes of colour, and in part to the nobility and loftiness of spirit ever unconsciously reflected in this great artist's work.”