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 xvin CASPAR NETSCHER 293 Canvas, a small picture. In the collection of Sir W. Temple, Moor Park. In the collection of Lord Palmerston, Broadlands. In the collection of A. E. M. Ashley, Broadlands. 452. Portrait of a Child. Dressed in a white silk frock, and seated on a stone bench. On its shoulders and on either side of its white cap are red rosettes. It holds a flower in its left hand, and grasps at a stick with the right hand. Landscape background ; a yellow curtain to the left. Canvas, 19 inches by 15 inches. In the collection of Lady Wantage, Lockinge, 1905 catalogue, No. 162. 453. PORTRAIT OF A LITTLE BOY. Sm. 46. With a maid-servant. The fair-haired child, in a white silk frock, sits, turned slightly to the left, on a stone table partly covered with a Persian carpet. He holds on his knees his pinafore, on which lies a bunch of grapes. With his right hand he clutches at some fruit which a maid-servant, standing behind to the left, offers him on a dish. Above to the right is a red curtain. To the left is a balustrade, with a view of a wooded land- scape. Sm. conjectured that the child might be the Princess Mary. On the back is inscribed : "Johannes H. " An "exquisitely painted picture " (Sm.). Panel, 13 inches by n inches. Acquired from an unknown Paris collection by Lord Radstock (for 5000 francs). Sales. Lord Radstock, London, May 12, 1826, No. 19 (79:163., Hollingsworth). John Slater, London, April 22, 1837, No. 78 (7% : 155., Kermann). William Wells, Redleaf, May 12, 1848, No. 78 (111 : 6s., Fuller but Sm., according to a MS. note by Sm. himself in his own copy of his catalogue). - In the collection of Thomas Baring, London, 1854 (Waagen, ii. 183). In the collection of the Earl of Northbrook, London, 1889 catalogue, No. 78. 454. PORTRAIT OF A CHILD. In a low-cut red frock with a greyish-white pinafore. The child plucks roses from a spray which is placed in a sculptured vase on a stone table to the left. With its left hand it holds up its pinafore, in which are some roses. At the back is a landscape in evening light. [Pendant to 58.] Panel, 14 inches by io inches. [Almost certainly identical with 457. On the back, in almost obliterated chalk, is the number " 58," presumably that of the De Kat sale. There is also a seal with three bugle-horns. In the collection of the Marquess of Hertford. Translator.} In the Wallace Collection, London, 1910 catalogue, No. 212. 455. Portrait of a Child. Dressed in blue and white silk. To the right is a Persian carpet. In the Quimper Museum ; noted by A. Bredius.