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 viii PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 603 Signed to the left of the centre with the full monogram ; panel, 10 inches by 14 inches. In the collection of Boughton Knight, Downton Castle, Ludlow. 1054. LANDSCAPE WITH A HORSEMAN AND A RED COACH. Sm. 517. On the left is a placid stream crossed by a wooden bridge. On the right is a broad sandy road, on which a horseman with a dog rides away. To the left are a man lying on his face and another man seated. In the right middle distance a red coach drawn by a grey and other horses goes up the dunes. In the centre is a farmhouse near trees. A good picture of the early period. Signed in the centre at foot with the early period ; panel, 1 7 inches by 20^ inches. Engraved by C. M. Gttnther. First mentioned in the Dresden catalogue of 1817. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1408. 1055. LANDSCAPE WITH A HORSEMAN IN FRONT OF A COTTAGE. On the road in the centre a man in a red cloak on a grey horse has halted ; his back is toward the spectator. He converses with a woman and her child, who lie in the sand to the left near a poor thatched cottage. In the right foreground, in shadow, a dog drinks at a pool. In the background is a cornfield partly cut ; near it are a tree, a house, and figures. In the distance is a range of hills. Formerly catalogued as " in the manner of Wouwerman " ; it is, however, a characteristic work of his earliest period. Signed on the left at foot with the early monogram ; panel, 9 inches by 12 inches. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1409. 1056. A Hilly Landscape with a Man on a Grey Horse. To the right on the shore of a lake are picturesque cottages. In the left foreground is a tree ; at the back is a village at the foot of a bare hill. On a road in the centre a man in a red cloak rides a grey horse, with his back to the spectator. Farther back is a beggar. The authenticity of the monogram is doubtful. The picture reminds one of Pieter Wouwerman, but may be an early work of Philips. Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; canvas, 21 inches by 26^ inches. Probably transferred in 1741 from the royal apartments. In the octavo inventory of Steinhauser (up to 1747), No. 2535. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, 1431. 1057. A DUNE LANDSCAPE. On a narrow footpath on the left a horseman, seen from the back, with his dog rides away. To the left, behind a bank at the roadside, is the thatched roof of a cottage. On the right is the dry bed of a stream between sandy banks. At the back is a bare landscape bounded by dunes. Signed in the centre at foot with the early monogram j panel, 9 inches by 12 inches.