“Now one thing is annoying and no one can change this. It is that the days are so horribly short because of the dark weather. Sketching and [? ] is still possible to do, but to look closely and to reproduce subtle hues and shades would now be completely impossible. Especially in the Museum it is sometimes really dark.”

— Gerard Bilders

translation from the Dutch original: Fons Heijnsbroek
version in original Dutch / citaat van Gerard Bilders' brief, in het Nederlands: ..Nu is er maar één ding, dat hinderlijk is en waar niemand iets aan veranderen kan, het is, dat de dagen zoo schrikkelijk kort zijn door het donkere weder. Voor aanleggen[?] en schetsen gaat het nog, maar fijne toonen en tinten te begluren en weder te geven zou nu eene onmogelijkheid zijn. Vooral op het Museum is het somtijds bijzonder duister.
Quote of Gerard Bilders, in a letter to his mecenas Johannes Kneppelhout, The Hague 19 Jan. 1857; from an excerpt of this letter https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/excerpts/512, in the RKD-Archive, The Hague
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