"Achenbach's 'Norwegian Scenery with Glaciers,' is full of poetry, and as full of fine painting. The mist, the lonely firs, and the settling flock of water-fowl, whose screaming might be excused for listening for, are alike evidences of the painter's imagination and skill. The 'Dutch Sea-Shore,' by the same artist, is an admirable water-piece, one of the gustiest things we ever saw on canvas; but in power it is second to the 'Storm on the Coast of Sicily,' in which Achenbach has shown great daring, and that he has a right to dare. The picture is a mere contest of wind and water below, and of wind and clouds above. The skurrying vapor and driving spary being made prismatic by the almost horizontal rays of the sun. The management of the clouds near the sun, is both truthful and skilful. - Courier & Enquirer." [P. 27-28; See serialS 05190083 AND 05190089 for the other pictures described in this commentary.]
Catalogue Paintings, by Artists of the Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. New York: Baker & Godwin, Book and Job Printers, corner Nassau and Spruce Streets. 1855
