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 546 Painting Palace, of the year 1654, is in the Dulwich College Gallery. Emanuel de Witte (1607—1692), one of the best Dutch painters of architecture, at first attempted portraiture, but did not succeed in that branch of art. His favourite sub- jects are the interiors of churches, the windows of which admit floods of sunlight, which he finely contrasts with the dark shadows. An Interior of a Church, by him, is in the National Gallery. Johann Lingelbach (1622 — 1687), though a German by birth, must be considered a Dutch painter, for after a visit to Paris and a lengthened stay in Italy, he settled at Amsterdam, and there executed most of his important works. His subjects are usually views of Sea Ports ; the Hay Harvest by him is in the National Gallery. He fre- quently also painted figures for the pictures of other artists. Jan van der Heyden (1637—1712), called the "Gerard Dou of architectural painters," is supposed to have come to England at some period of his life. His works are to be noticed for a most minute finish combined with great breadth of treatment. The View of a Public Square, surrounded by trees, in the Pinakothek, Munich; the Convent Garden, at Grosvenor House, London ; the View of a Dutch Town, in the Amsterdam Museum; and the View of the Town Hall of Amsterdam, in the Louvre ; in which the figures are painted by Adriaan van de Velde (who also painted the figures in Van der Heyden' s picture in the Dulwich College Gallery), are some of the highest works of this special genre, in which Van der Heyden, who had scarcely a predecessor, has remained without a rival and without an imitator. A Street in Cologne, is in the National Gallery.