Off to dreamland.

The Critics: Arts John Constable was not known for his sharp tongue, but in 1836, in preparation for a series of lectures he was to give on painting to the Royal Institution, he proposed to do mortal harm to two fellow artists. Other Dutch artists had made the trip, from Ro-gier van der Weyden in the 15th century and Pieter Bruegel in the 16th to Pieter van Laer, Berchem's older contemporary. Arnold Houbraken, the Dutch Vasari who between 1718 and 1721 published a collection of artists' lives called The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters, said that Berchem took his name from "berg hem" - "save him". [Extracted from the article]

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