Kudos for introducing many of us to a beguiling artist.
The Dutch themselves were adepts too at this sort of historicism, Cornelis Springer’s 1882 view of the Herengracht’s Gouden Bocht being a conspicuous example.
Why not show it also to your readers?
But i forgot – your unaccountable refusal to write about the Netherlands won’t allow it.

Hahahaha I can keenly sense your bitterness. Do you know I am hoping to head back there next month? Not to Holland, though, but to Limburg.

I will try and get my impressions of Amsterdam out soon — though I realise I told you the same months ago.

Maastricht I hope? Two magnificent churches and a famous and still largely intact fortification – named after its creator General Dumoulin, of a noble Huguenot family which produced no less than five generals for the armies of Holland and Prussia, one of whom, son of the man mentioned above, was Commandant of another great fortification (Luxemburg) for much of the first half of the nineteenth century.
But don’t go next month – wait until March and the Maastricht arts fair, the greatest in the world.