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 xni JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 293 sails goes to the right. Beyond it to the right another boat sails forward. In the left distance are other boats. On the horizon is the tower of a town. Signed in full on the right ; canvas, 2i| inches by 25 inches. Sale. H. de Kat, Paris, May 2, 1866, No. 69 (5700 francs, for the museum). In the Brussels Museum, 1906 catalogue, No. 399. 947. A STORMY SEA. Sm. 320. The sea in a storm is viewed from a dyke in the left foreground. Several boats, one of them with a red sail. In the right distance is a ship. Dark sky with flashes of light here and there. Signed ; canvas, 30^ inches by 39 inches. Exhibited at Manchester, 1857, No. 766; and at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1879, No. 91. In the collection of the Duke of Newcastle, Clumber ; it was there in 1835 (Sm.). 948. SEA-PIECE. The sea is somewhat rough. In the right centre is a projecting piece of shore, with fishermen. To the left a boat with brown sails and to the right a boat with white sails are most prominent. There are various other small boats. Heavy clouds. Canvas, 17 inches by 17^ inches. Exhibited at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, 1890, No. 82. In the collection of Sir Hickman Bacon, Bart., Gainsborough. 949. A Small Sea-Piece. Possibly genuine. In the Revilliod collection, Geneva, bequeathed to the museum. In the Ariana Museum, Geneva, No. 180. 950. Sea-Piece. A boat with white sails goes diagonally to the right. Near it is a smaller boat, also with white sails, while a boat with brown sails is on the left farther back. Very dark. It hangs too high to be properly studied. Canvas, about 14 inches by 18 inches. In the collection of Earl Howe, Gopsall. 951. ROUGH WATER IN A RIVER AFTER A STORM. The banks are seen to left and right. Finely handled clouds and waves. The sun sets half behind red and yellow clouds. On the right is a big squat tower with mills on either side. The scene reminds one of the little town of Briel, but that place really lies on the other bank. 20 inches by 24 inches. In the collection of Nicolaus Hudtwalker, Hamburg. In the collection of Johannes Wesselhoeft, Hamburg, which was bequeathed in 1889 to the Kunsthalle ; Hudtwalker- Wesselhoeft catalogue, 1889, p. 18. In the Hamburg Kunsthalle. 952. A ROUGH SEA IN A STORM. The dark foreground and middle distance are lightened here and there by the white foam. On the edge of the strongly lighted distance, but in the shadow to the left, is