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18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY IN AUSTRALIA.
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Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Pieter Hermansz Verelst



But by accident he did direct us to a painter that was then in the house with him, a Dutchman, newly come over, one Evarelst, who took us to his lodging close by, and did shew us a little flower-pot of his doing, the finest thing that ever, I think, I saw in my life; the drops of dew hanging on the leaves, so as I was forced, again and again, to put my finger to it, to feel whether my eyes were deceived or no. He do ask 70l. for it: I had the vanity to bid him 20l.; but a better picture I never saw in my whole life; and it is worth going twenty miles to see it.
Samuel Pepys April 11th 1669.
Marketplace :  By Pieter Hermansz Verelst