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 2io CASPAR NETSCHER SECT. 174. Mary Bayning ( -1684), wife of William Villiers, second Viscount Grandison, whom she married in 1639, and mother of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland. Blue dress and red cloak. i8| inches by 15 inches. Sale. Lord Amherst of Hackney and others, London, December 12, 1908, No. 58. Bennet (Arlington). [See 214.] 175. LADY MARY BENTINCK (1679-1726), daughter of the first Earl of Portland, and afterwards Countess of Essex, as a child. She sits, loosely clad with her feet bare, on a velvet cushion with rich drapery. There are flowers in her right hand and in her lap. In the right fore- ground is a large curtain. Behind her is a pillar with a sculptured base. In the left background is a park. Signed in full, and dated, illegibly, on the base of the pillar. A copy after a portrait by Netscher of a child of the Earl of Portland is mentioned among the goods left by Netscher's widow in 1694 see Oud Holland, v. p. 271, No. 1 20. In the collection of the Duke of Portland, Welbeck Abbey, 1894 catalogue, No. 153. 176. SUPPOSED PORTRAIT OF GEORGE, FIRST EARL OF BERKELEY. A small half-length, almost in full face. A young-looking man in a black velvet cloak with full sleeves and a ruffle and cuffs of Venetian point. He wears a large light brown wig. He stands leaning his right elbow on a stone pedestal carved in relief with childish figures. His left hand is on his hip. Behind him hangs a curtain of brown and gold brocade, to the right of which is an open window. The National Gallery catalogue questions the identification of the sitter as the Earl of Berkeley. [Cf. 190.] [As the Earl was married in 1646, and must have been about fifty-five in 1679, the proposed identification is highly improbable. Translator.'] Signed "C. N.," and dated 1679 ; canvas, 18 inches by 14^ inches. A replica signed in full, and dated 1682; canvas, 19^ inches by 15^ inches is, as a " Portrait of a Gentleman of about Twenty-five," in the Stutt- gart Museum, 1907 catalogue, No. 285 ; pendant to 393 (Stuttgart). Another replica is 190 (Rijksmuseum). Presented by Lord Savile in 1891 to the National Gallery. In the National Gallery, London, 1911 catalogue, No. 1332. 177. COENRAAD VAN BEUNINGEN (1622-1693), Burgo- master of Amsterdam. Three-quarter length ; standing in a three-quarter view to the right. He rests his right hand on his hip, and his left hand on the back of a chair upholstered in red. He wears a black costume richly trimmed with lace and a large brown wig. Behind him to the left is a brown curtain. Signed in full, and dated 1673 5 canvas, 19 inches by 15^ inches. In the collection of A. van der Hoop, Amsterdam ; bequeathed to the city in 1854 and lent to the Rijksmuseum in 1885. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1911 catalogue, No. 1727.