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 ix FRANS HALS 73 See Moes, Jconographia Batava, No. 9378. Described from a print by J. van der Velde, 1630 ; the original is lost. 246. PORTRAIT OF A MAN SEATED. M. 122. He is turned to the right, but his head is seen in full face. He looks towards the left foreground, but not at the spectator. His right elbow rests on the arm of a red arm-chair. In his right hand is a sprig of holly. He has a fair moustache and pointed beard j his face is very red and there are warts on the right cheek and on the left near the beard. He wears a broad- brimmed black hat, a black costume with a woven pattern, and a white collar edged with lace. Grey background. On the right is a view, through a window, of a road bordered with pine-trees ; on the road is a man with a sprig of holly. This view is said to have been painted by Van Goyen, but this seems unlikely. On the left under the paint are black patches, which suggest that the picture has been cut down. Inscribed on the chair, " Aeta 41, 1626" ; canvas, 32 inches by 26 inches. Exhibited in the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1907, No. 41. In the collection of Earl Spencer, Althorp. 247. PORTRAIT OF A MAN STANDING. M. 148. Three-quarter-length. He is seen in full face, and looks at the spectator. His left arm, holding his gloves, hangs down almost straight ; the right hand is not seen, but is obviously pressed to his side. He has long dark- brown hair and a slight moustache. He is in black with a close-fitting white collar and white wristbands. His white shirt peeps out at the throat and the sleeves. The sitter is not the famous Admiral Michael Adriaensz de Ruyter, as was formerly supposed, but a simple citizen. It is a masterly painting executed, one might almost assume, without any preliminary sketch, but drawn with the brush. [Compare 257.] Signed on the left at top with the monogram ; canvas, 45 inches by inches. Exhibited at Manchester, 1857, No. 671 ; at the Portrait Exhibition, The Hague, 1903, No. 38 ; at the Guildhall, London, 1903, No. 175 ; and at the Royal Academy, 1907, No. 47. In the collection of Earl Spencer, Althorp, No. 507. 248. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN. M. 149 and 150. He is in profile to the right, but faces the spectator. He wears a black cap, a white shirt, a black vest, a red cloak, and a grey jacket. Brilliantly lighted from the left. Circular panel, 6| inches in diameter. In the collection of Earl Spencer, Althorp. 249. PORTRAIT OF A MAN SEATED. B. 47 ; M. 144. He faces three-quarters right, and wears a big hat. His right arm rests on the back of his chair, with the hand hanging down. [See 197.] Canvas, 30 inches by 25 inches. The portrait of H. Langelius (197) at Amiens is of the same size and came