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 xv ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE 465 Signed in full, and dated 1658 ; oval canvas, 13 inches by 10 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1877, No. 51. Sale. C. L. Reynders, Brussels, August 6, 1821 (1000 florins). In the collection of Baron von Mecklenburg, Paris ; bought from him in 1825 by Sm. (for 5000 francs) and sold to Abraham Robarts, London, who had it in 1834. In the collection of A. J. Robarts, London. 28^. Portrait of a Horseman. A young gentleman on a fine horse in the foreground of a landscape. Canvas, 33 inches by 42 inches. Sale. P. F. de Noter, Ghent, December 27, 1842, No. 73. 28^. A Gentleman on Horseback. Panel, 16 inches by u| inches. Sale. Mile. Helen e Herry, Antwerp, September 18, 1848, No. 100. 29. A PORTRAIT-GROUP IN A LANDSCAPE (or, The Artist and his Family). Sm. 100, and Suppl. 23. In the centre fore- ground stands the father, dressed in plain brown and bare-headed, with his stick in his right hand. Beside him is his wife, in red with a black shawl. In front of them to the right is a boy holding a dog ; his hat has fallen off. On a tree-trunk to the left a maid-servant, dressed in light yellow and blue, sits nursing a little child. Beyond is a wooded slope, at the foot of which a road leads from the right-hand corner into the distance. On the road in the middle distance is a cart with two grey horses ; the coachman is arranging the harness. In the cart is a red seat. To the right of the road a shepherd lies on the grass among his sheep. Beyond is a small house amid trees on a hill, in front of which a river flows through fertile country. A fine autumn evening ; light clouds in the sky. The artist's masterpiece ; the effect is admirably picturesque. Signed in full on the left at foot, and dated 1667 ; canvas, 58 inches by 67 inches (according to the Amsterdam catalogue). Exhibited at Amsterdam, 1845, No. 27. Sales. Lord Rendlesham, London, 1806 (^300). G. van der Pals, Rotterdam, August 30, 1824, No. 40 (10,000 florins, Nieuwenhuys). J. Nieuwenhuys, London, 1833 (^1375 : IOS> > bought in). In the Van der Hoop collection, Amsterdam ; bought from Nieuwenhuys in 1833, or 1835 (Sm.) ; bequeathed with the collection in 1854 to the town of Amsterdam, and lent to the Rijksmuseum in 1885. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Van der Hoop bequest, 1910 catalogue, No. 2446. 30. A Lady and Gentleman with their Son and Daughter walking in the Country. Sm. Suppl. 4. A mansion stands in an enclosed garden and shrubbery with a row of trees in front. On a road in the foreground are a stout gentleman in black and his wife in a plain costume with a fan in her hand. In front of them walk a girl in blue, holding a wreath of flowers, and a boy in drab clothes, playing with a goat. VOL. IV 2 H