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 jx FRANS HALS 7 Museum, and especially to the excellent little portrait of Agatha van der Horn in the Luxemburg Museum, dated 1663, which is equal to a Frans Hals. In general, it may be said that De Bray is happiest in his small portraits, which usually pass under a wrong name, as, for example, that of Thomas de Keyser. PHILIPS WOUWERMAN (1619-1668) has been exhaustively treated in Vol. II. of this work, and need only be mentioned here. Nor need one do more for the whole series of genre-painters who were once regarded as more or less distant imitators of Frans Hals, like Palamedes, Codde, Duck, Duyster, Kick, Bartsius, and the rest. Now that the dates when they were born and died have been fixed, it is evident that their phase of art developed almost simultaneously and on parallel lines in various towns of Holland. Their common prototype may be found rather in Dirck Hals than in his brother Frans. Finally, one must exclude from the school of Frans Hals those painters who have only been assigned to it on the strength of a forged inscription on the back of a "View of a Studio" in the Haarlem Museum, once wrongly ascribed to Job Berckheyde. It is now known that the picture was the work of Michiel Sweerts, and had nothing to do with Haarlem, still less with Frans Hals, and that the names given to the painters repre- sented were all purely conjectural. The two Berckheyde, P. Molijn, and Dirck van Deelen must therefore be struck out of the list of Hals' pupils. TRANSLATOR'S NOTE In the references added to the entries in the Catalogue "B." = List of Hals' pictures given by Dr. W. Bode, "Studien zur Geschichte der hollandischen Malerei," Brunswick, 1883. "M." = E. W. Moes, "Frans Hals, sa vie et son ceuvre," Brussels, 1909. In the entries " Hoet " = " Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schilderyen, meet derzelven pryzen Zedert een langen reeks van Jaaren zoo in Holland als op andere Plaatzen in het openbaar verkogt. Benevens een Verzame- ling van Lysten van Verscheyden nog in Wesen zynde Cabinetten uytgegeven door Gerard Hoet." Two volumes. [Covering sales from 1676 to 1752.] (The Hague, 1752.) " Terw." = The continuation of Hoet's work in a third volume, covering sales from 1752 to 1768, and describing the Royal collection at The Hague, by Pieter Terwesten. (The Hague, 1770.) " Parthey " = " Deutscher Bildersaal. Verzeichnis der in Deutschland vorhandenen Olbilder verstorbener Maler aller Schulen. ^ In alpha- betischer Folge zusammengestellt von Gustav Parthey." (Berlin, 1863-64.)