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 xxi EGLON HENDRIK VAN DER NEER 505 1 19^7. Two Children with a Bird's Nest. Panel, 9 inches by 7 inches. Sale. J. B. Horion, Brussels, September i, 1788, No. 141 (102 francs). 119^. Children playing with Birds in a Landscape. Panel, 10 inches by 7 inches. Sale. Comtc de Bude de Ferney, Paris, April 8, 1864, No. 46. 120. PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER. Half-length, turned to the right j seen behind a balustrade, on which he leans his right arm. His face, framed in a full curled wig, is turned towards the spectator. He holds on the balustrade with his left hand a picture of a landscape with two figures, possibly mythological. He wears a cloak falling in folds over the right arm, a white cravat, and a medal on a chain at his breast. To the right a curtain is caught up on high. In the Uffizi, Florence, 1910 catalogue, No. 457 ; it was there in 1718 (Houbraken). i20tf. Portrait of the Painter. Very good. [Pendant to 120^.] ii inches by 8 inches. See Moes, Iconographia JJatava, No. 5326, 2 and 3. Sales. De Amory, Amsterdam, June 23, 1722 (Hoet, i. 261), No. 23 (65 florins, with pendant). Amsterdam, October 16, 1736 (Hoet, i. 473), No. 8 (100 florins with pendant). The Wife of E. H. van der Neer. The painter was thrice married. It is uncertain which of the three wives was here represented. [Pendant to I2O#.] ii inches by 8 inches. Sales. De Amory, Amsterdam, June 23, 1722 (Hoet, i. 261), No. 24 (65 florins, with pendant). Amsterdam, October 16, 1736 (Hoet, i. 473), No. 8 (100 florins, with pendant). i2oc. Portrait of the Painter. With accessories. Attractive and delicately finished. [Pendant to 120^.] Copper, 9 inches by 6| inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 5326, 4. Sales. Isaak Hoogenbergh, Amsterdam, April 10, 1743 (Hoet, ii. 85), No. 67 (58 florins, with pendant, D. letswaart). The Hague, February 25, 1744, No. n (105 florins, with pendant, W. Lormier). In the possession of W. Lormier, The Hague, 1752, (Hoet, ii. 434) ; according to his store-room catalogue of December, 1754, No. 204, he had bought it at The Hague (for 56 florins). Sale. W. Lormier, The Hague, July 4, 1763 (Terw. 326), No. 200 (81 florins). i20*/. The Wife of E. H. van der Neer. See note to [Pendant to 120^.] Copper, 9 inches by 6| inches.