Dutch Rush

( Bot.) See EQUISETUM. Dutch School, n. ( Painting.) This school of art cannot be said to po e the perfections that are to be observed in the Flemish school; their subjects are derived from the tavern, the smith shop, and from vulgar amusements of the rudest peasants. The expre ions are sufficiently marked; but it is the expre ion of pa ions which debase, instead of ennobling human nature. It must be acknowledged, at the same time, that the Dutch painters have succeeded in several branches of the art. If they have chosen low subjects of imitation, have represented them with great exactne ; s; and truth must always please. If they have not succeeded in more difficult parts of the chiaro-oscuro, they at least excel in the most striking, such as in light confined in a narrow space, night illuminated by the moon, or by torches, and the light of a smith's forge. The Dutch understand the gradations of colors. They have no rivals in landscape-painting, considered as the faithful representation of a particular scene; but they are far from equalling Titian, Pou in, Claude Lorraine, ., who have carried to the greatest perfection the ideal landscape; and whose pictures, instead of being the topographical representation of certain places, are the combined result of everything beautiful in imagination or in nature. - The greatest of the Dutch masters, though not the most characteristic, is Rembrandt van Rhyn, for portraits and figures; F. Bol, G. Flinck, F. Hals, and Vanderhelst were also excellent portrait-painters; G. Douw, Terburg, Metzu, Mieris, and Netscher were admirable at conversation pieces; Bruwer, Ostade, and Jan Steen are as distinguished for the low subjects they painted as for the ability displayed in their execution; Ruysdael, Hobbema, Cuyp, A. Vanderneer, Berghem, and A. Both are among the greatest of landscape-painters; Ph. Wouvermans and Huchtenburg are unsurpa ed as battle-painters; W. Vandevelde the younger, and Bakhuysen, excelled in marine pieces; and Willemkalf, A. Van Utrecht, Van Huysum, and De Heem are unrivalled as painters of still life and flowers. Dutch Settlement, in Louisiana , a village of St. Mary's parish, on Bayou Teche, abt. 100 m. W.S.W. of New Orleans.