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 xiv MEINDERT HOBBEMA 357 12. View of the Bleaching - Grounds outside Leyden. A horseman and two travellers. Canvas, 12 inches by 15^ inches. Sale. Amsterdam, May 7, 1804, No. 78. 13. THE AVENUE, MIDDELHARNIS. Sm. 88. From the centre foreground a road bordered by straight lopped trees leads away to a village, the great church of which rises above low trees in the left distance. At either side of the road is a ditch, with plantations to the left and in the right foreground, where a man is fixing a prop to a young tree. Beyond the plantation on the right a road branches off", passing a large farm, in front of which are a man and a woman. In the left fore- ground is a little wood. In the middle distance a sportsman with a gun comes along the road, followed by his dog ; beyond him are other figures. In the right distance are a beacon and ships' masts. A fine cloudy sky. The place from which Hobbema painted the view can still be identified. The third figure of the date is now illegible ; according to C. G. 't Hooft the younger in De Amsterdammer^ No. 947, it was an 8, but see the biographical introduction above (pp. 350-351). Signed in full, and dated 16-9 ; canvas, 40^ inches by 55^ inches. A copy by Adriaen van der Koogh is now in the town-hall at Middelharnis ; it was accepted, with a view of the village of Renkum by the same painter, in exchange for Hobbema's original work in 1822. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1835. In the collection of Theodoras Kruislander, clerk of the neighbouring village of Sommelsdijk. According to an inscription in the Middelharnis town- hall, it was bought from Kruislander's estate in 1783 by the magistrate of Middelharnis and presented to the village ; but it was probably bought at the sale of Kruislander's goods, October 15, 1782 (for 25 florins 50). Sue Hofstede de Groot, N e der lands c he Spectator, 1893, No. 8. In the Middelharnis town-hall till 1822. Thus Sm. errs in stating that it was sold privately at Dordrecht, 1815 (for 1000 florins). Most probably it was in the collection of R. Pott, Rotterdam, and thence purchased in 1824 by Galli, who took it to Edinburgh. Sold at auction in Edinburgh, 1828 (for .204 : 155.) ; afterwards taken to London, "much improved by cleaning" (Sm.), and sold by Ewing (for j8oo). In the collection of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., London, 1835 (Sm.) ; bought for the National Gallery in 1871. In the National Gallery, London, 1906 catalogue, No. 830. 14. Landscape with a View of Oosterbeek near Arnhem (so called). In the left foreground is a fenced meadow, in which are a large herd of cows, sheep, goats, and two shepherds. At the side of the meadow is a clump of high trees, from which bushes stretch across the middle distance. Beyond are hills with villages. In front is a stream, with a pack-ass on the nearer side, and a shepherd with sheep beyond. The figures are attributed to A. van de Velde. Signed in full on the left at foot ; canvas, 25 inches by 41 inches. Sale. Countess Reigersberg, Cologne, October 15, 1890, No. 68. 15. View of a River with the Estate of Roozenbeek.