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 vii AELBERT CUYP 191 house. In the distance are windmills. Blue sky with clouds. An early work. Signed A. Cuyp ; panel, 14 inches by 21 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1903, No. 82. In the collection of George Salting, London. 639. RIVER SCENE WITH SHIPPING. Sm. 25 and 175. In the right foreground a boat with a large sail is going away. It has on board about eleven persons ; the water is thrown up at the bows. In the middle distance, to the left, is a large three-masted vessel with sails reefed, seen almost end on. Near it a boat, the sail of which is being hoisted, is going across the picture to the left ; it is partly hidden by a boat in the left foreground with two rowers and three passengers. In the distance are other vessels. To the right, in the middle distance, are the church and houses of Dordrecht. The water is disturbed j gleams of sunshine break through the clouds. Canvas, 38 inches by 58^ inches. In the Slingeland collection, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 496). Sale, J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, August 22, 1785, No. 84 (1300 florins, Fouquet). In the Nagell van Ampsen collection, The Hague, 1827 (worth ^630 Sm.). Sales. A. W. C. Baron Nagell van Ampsen, The Hague, September 5, 1851, No, 9 (9000 florins, Etienne le Roy). Th. Patureau, Paris, April 20, 1857, No. 5. In the collection of the Marquess of Hertford. In the Wallace Collection, London, 1901 catalogue, No. 49. 640. RIVER SCENE WITH SHIPPING AND FIGURES. Sm. 24 and Suppl. 10. On the right is seen part of a jetty of piles, on which a man and a woman are standing. A rowing-boat carrying nine persons has just put off. A larger boat with a brown sail lies alongside. In the centre, a ferry-boat approaches the opposite bank of the river, where people await its arrival. Other sailing-boats are seen in the distance. The sunlight breaks through grey clouds. "A most beautiful work of the master " (Sm.). Signed, A. Cuyp ; panel, 27^ inches by 35 inches. Mentioned by W. Burger, Tresors d" 1 Art en Angleterrc, 271. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1837 '> at Manchester, 1857, No. 721, by Leicester ; and at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1872, No. 147, and 1895, No. 58. In the Slingeland collection, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 496). Sale. J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, August 22, 1785, No. 85 (850 florins, Beekman). In the collection of Sir Robert Price, Bart., 1837 (Sm.). Sales. Sir Robert Price, London, 1854 (.510, Rutley). The Rev. F. Leicester, London, 1860 (^850 : IDS., Morrison). In the collection of the Marquess of Hertford. In the Wallace Collection, London, 1901 catalogue, No. 54. 641. SHIPS ON THE MAAS AT DORDRECHT. Sm. 171.