ST. PETERSBURG.- The exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum showcases 70 works from the collection of Jef Rademakers, one of the largest private collections of nineteenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings in Europe. Today it includes over 100 pictures by Romanticists, the earliest dating from 1806 and the latest from the 1870s. The paintings on display deal with the entire range of subjects that attracted Romantic artists from the Low Countries: summer and winter landscapes, seascapes and townscapes, a variety of still-lifes, night scenes, portraits and genre compositions. The core of the collection is formed by so-called “lofty” landscapes. Another noteworthy part of the collection consists of works by the Flemish painter Basile do Loose. The exhibited works are part of the private collection of the Belgian-Dutch art enthusiast and former television producer and writer Jef Rademakers. His collection, co