Assessment
The 11th edition Britannica, from whose text this encyclopedia borrows, has a fairly low opinion of Dies's work, as the following quotations indicate:
- " he became a bold executant in water-colours and in oil, though he failed to acquire any originality of his own."
- "Lord Bristol, who encouraged him as a copyist, predicted that he would be a second Salvator Rosa. However, Dies did not have the creativity necessary to become a great artist."
- "With so many irons in the fire Dies naturally lost the power of concentration."
- "From two pictures now in the Belvedere gallery, and from numerous engraved drawings from the neighborhood of Tivoli, we gather that Dies was never destined to rise above a respectable mediocrity. He followed Salvator Rosa's example in imitating the manner of Claude Lorraine. But Salvator adapted the style of Claude, whilst Dies did no more than copy it."
According to Gotwals (1968), "Friedrich Noack in his article in the Thieme and Becker Allgemeines Lexicon der bildenden Künstler, describes Dies's work as clumsy, mediocre, and prosaic.
Gotwals adds, concerning Dies's writing, that "his literary style is hardly better."
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