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 xin JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 295 water of piles. Painted from the same place as 959, but the view is shifted more to the right j thus the town of Amsterdam is not now visible in the left distance, and the breakwater is on the left. The tone is on the whole browner than in 959. Painted about 1660. Signed in full ; canvas, 42 inches by 49 inches. Exhibited at Manchester, 1857, No. 958 ; and at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1908, No. 57. Found in Holstein by the Hamburg dealer Harzen, according to Waagen (ii. 452). In the collection of R. Forster, London. Sale. Chandos Reade and others, London, July 23, 1895, No. 70 (4410, Colnaghi). In the collection of Alfred Beit, London. In the collection of Otto Beit, London. 958. A VERY ROUGH SEA. Sm. Suppl. 44. On the left a Dutch coaster with a reddish-brown sail comes up ; she carries four men and flies a pennant at the stern. Beyond and farther right are two similar vessels. On the left the sea breaks on a long sandbank, on which are three fishermen. Near it a Dutch lugger is tacking under main- and fore- sails. Farther back a warship lies at anchor. In the distance a town is dimly seen. Sunlight breaks here and there through the storm-clouds, and enlivens the dark water. Sm. calls this a view on the Briel river or perhaps an arm of the Zuyder Zee. Canvas, 39 inches by 51 inches. Exhibited at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, 1903, No. 138. Sale, T. A. van Iddekinge, Amsterdam, April 25, 1838, No. 24 (4700 florins, Brondgeest). Bought by Sm. and sold to A. Fountaine, 1839. In the collection of Ludwig Neumann, London. 959. SEA-PIECE: THE Y ON A STORMY DAY. Sm. Suppl. 2. The arm of the sea on which Amsterdam was situated. In the distance to the left is the city ; the long low roof of the warehouse of the East India Company may be distinguished. Almost in the centre of the rough water a fishing-boat with a white sail, towing a small boat, makes for the right distance. Two other boats, one of them with a red sail, make for the same direction, at equal distances apart. Three more boats are seen to the left and farther away. In the right foreground is a break- water of piles. Dark cloudy sky. Except in front, the water is fairly well lighted. One of the finest of Ruisdael's sea-pieces. Painted from the same place as 957. Signed in full on the right ; canvas, 25 inches by 31^ inches. Etched by P. J. Arendzen in Hofstede de Groot, Hollandsche Kunst in Engehche Verzamelingen. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1871, No. 224 ; at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, 1890, No. 52 ; and at the Burling- ton Fine Arts Club, London, 1900, No. 29. In the collection of Earl Beverley, 1842 (Sm.) ; sold as a whole, June 7, 1851.