He again returned to Holland and resided in Amsterdam, where he painted portraits and engraved cabinet pictures in the manner of Frans van Mieris the Elder, Gabri�l Metsu, and Godfried Schalcken, which he exhibited regularly from 1808 to 1813.
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When Charles Sprague Pearce showed his cabinet picture of Rosina for the Salon in 1882, Mr . Pearce described her as " the tawney skinned, panther eyed, elf-like Rosina, wildest and lithest of all the savage creatures on the savage isle of Capri . " The Neapolitan and Capri fisher girls, almost always working class, had long been in the French imagination during the 19th century, especially since 1849 when Alphonse de Lamartine wrote his then famous, now forgotten romantic novel " Graziella ".
