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 xvn GERARD TER BORCH ^89 He has long light brown hair (a peruke ?), and wears white bands, a black gown trimmed with velvet over a black coat buttoned down the front. His left hand is in front of his body. The copy is signed in full in a brown label at top to the left, and dated 1668. See Moes, Iconograpkia Batava, No. 6620, i and 2. The original is lost. Described from the life-sized copy by H. van der Mij in the Senate-hall of the University of Leyden. Anna van Ruytenburgh, wife of Adriaen Pauw. [See 255.] 265. HENDRICK VAN DER SCHALCKE, Preacher succes- sively at Uitgeest, Edam, and Hoorn from 1638 to 1676. Three-quarter length. He is turned a little to the right and looks at the spectator. He has short hair and a thin beard, and wears a tall black hat and a black costume with a large white collar. He holds a glove in his left hand, on which is a ring ; the right hand is not seen. He has a waggish expression. [Pendant to 266.] Signed on the right at foot with the monogram, and dated 1641 ; oval panel, n| inches by 9 inches. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1911 catalogue, No. 571 ; acquired in 1898. 266. THE WIFE OF THE PREACHER VAN DER SCHALCKE. Three-quarter length, standing. She is turned three- quarters left and looks at the spectator. She is in black with white cuffs, a large white ruff, and a white cap. Her hands are folded ; in the right hand she holds a glove. She has an aquiline nose. [Pendant to 265, and probably of the same date (1641).] Oval panel, n inches by 9 inches. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1911 catalogue, No. 572; acquired in 1898. 267. HELENA VAN DER SCHALCKE, daughter of the preacher Hendrick van der Schalcke and afterwards wife of Nicolaas Eickelberg. Represented at the age of three or four. Full length. She is turned slightly to the right, and looks at the spectator. She wears a long light frock, covering her feet, and a light hood from under which her hair projects at either side. A little basket on a long ribbon hangs from her right arm, and in her right hand she holds a flower. Her left hand hangs down. A life-like portrait. Panel, 13 J inches by 1 1 inches. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1911 catalogue, No. 573; acquired in 1898 with 265 and 266. 268. Sybrand Schellinger (before i640-after 1686), Governor of the West India Company, with his wife Janneke ter Borch (1640- 1675), sister of the painter. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, Nos. 6882 and 877. See also M. E. Houck, Mededeellngen betreffende Gerard ter Borch, Zwolle, 1889, p. 154.