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 266 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. Enden, Over den nationaalen Smaak der Hollandse School in de Teken en Schilderkttnst, Haarlem, iy&7, p. 133. Compare Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. J 1 06. 39. Portrait of a Gentleman on Horseback. Sm. Suppl. 265. He wears a dark-grey coat trimmed with gold lace, and a cocked hat with feathers. He is mounted on a dark-brown horse in profile, in the foreground of a landscape with a river. In the distance is a stag-hunt. "An admirable work of art" (Sm.). Panel, 13 inches by 12 inches. Sale. A. W. C. Baron van Nagell van Ampsen, The Hague, September 5* 1851, No. 74 (720 florins, J. Roos) ; it was in the Baron's collec- tion in 1842 (Sm.). 40. A Horseman with a Plumed Hat. Sm. 493. He sits on a bay horse in a landscape. Probably a portrait. A good early work. Signed ; panel, about 13 inches by n inches. An engraving by J. Visscher closely resembles the picture. Mentioned by Waagen, (ii. 279). Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1828. In the collection of the Earl of Carlisle, 1829 (Sm.) and 1854 (Waagen). 41. A General on a Black Horse. In the background is a cavalry fight. A genuine picture in the style of the portraits of horse- men by Th. de Keyser, but weaker. It is doubtful whether it is by Philips or by Pieter Wouwerman. Signed in the right-hand bottom corner with the monogram ; 29 inches by 33 inches. Sale. Hope Edwardes and others, London, April 27, 1901, No. 36. 42. THE RIDING-SCHOOL (or, Breaking-in Horses). Sm. Suppl. 216. The chief figure is that of a gentleman on a sorrel horse riding round a post, at which stands a groom with a whip. A stout man, a lady, and a cavalier with a plumed hat look on. Behind them are a woman with a basket on her back and a man taking a child down from a wall. In front of them stands a horse-dealer. On the other side of the post is a groom on a bay mare with a leaping stallion, to avoid whose hoofs a woman with a basket of apples steps aside. A very fine late picture. Panel, 15 inches by 21 inches. In the collection of Earl Spencer, Althorp, No. 113; it was there in 1842 (Sm.). 43. A RIDING-SCHOOL IN THE OPEN (or, The Kick- ing Horse). Sm. 450. In the left centre is a large tree. To the right of it, a grey horse ridden by a man in yellow kicks out behind and has upset a country woman with a basket of apples. On the right a groom holds another saddled horse by the bridle and raises his whip in his left hand. To the left near the tree is a horseman at full gallop. At the back a gentleman and a lady stand looking on. In front is a dog. In the right middle distance is a river, in which two riders are watering their