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 528 Painting become more famous had he lived longer. He left very few pictures, and his name is consequently little known. His fine Head of a Man, in the Rotterdam Museum, was long ascribed to Rembrandt. Samuel van Hoogstraeten (1627? — 1678) painted por- traits, landscapes and still life. Houbraken tells us that he visited England and Italy. Nicolaas Maes (1632 — 1693) first painted genre sub- jects, but on settling at Amsterdam in 1678 gave himself up to portraiture, in which branch of art he was very successful. The Amsterdam Gallery has an Old Woman Spinning, and a Girl at a Window, noteworthy for the beauty of their colouring. In England, the National Gal- lery has three good examples — The Cradle ; the Butch Housewife, and the Idle Servant, one of Maes's master- pieces. Many private galleries in England possess ex- amples of this master. From the immediate pupils of Rembrandt we now turn to those artists who were only his followers or imi- tators. We may conveniently divide these masters into four classes — those who painted (i) conversation-pieces, domestic life, interiors and portraits; (ii) landscapes and battle-scenes ; (iii) marine subjects ; and (iv) still-life, game and architecture. (b) The later Dutch Painters of domestic life. Jan Lievens (1607 — 1663), who studied at the same time as Rembrandt, under Lastman, went to England in 1630, and painted the portraits of Charles I., his family, and his court. On quitting England he settled at Antwerp,