In Holland. 533 enormous prices. The Poulterer s Shop, in the National Gallery, is well worthy of mention, both for composition and execution. The same Gallery also has a Portrait of Doits Wife. Gabriel Metsu (1630— aft. 1667), although imitating both Gerard Dou and Terborch, yet succeeded in marking out a new route for himself, and in making himself original by the frankness of his touch, as well as the power, richness, and harmony of his colouring. The Chemist, the Officer and the Young Lady, and still more the Vegetable Market of Amsterdam, represent him worthily in the Louvre ; the two Poulterers, and the celebrated Lace-Maker, are in the Museum of Dresden; and another Poulterer is in the Museum of Gassel. The National Gallery has three works by Metsu, a Duet, a Music Lesson, and The Drowsy Landlady. Isack Jansz, van Ostade, (1621 — 1649 ?) the younger brother and pupil of the more celebrated Adriaan, is equal to his brother in a different line ; and it is only in his genre that he remains his inferior. Adriaan doubtless is superior in the painting of little domestic or popular dramas, where the human being holds the first place ; but Isack makes up for this by the representation of the natural scenes of these dramas; he is more of a landscape painter. He made for himself a speciality of those winter landscapes, as Van der Neer did of moonlight. He was, and still is, the first master in this peculiar walk of art. Two good Frost scenes by Isack van Ostade are in the National Gallery, where is also a Village Scene by him ; his works are seen in various private galleries in this country, but they are rare on the Continent. Hendrik Martenz Rokes (1621—1682), is called Sorgh,
