i JAN STEEN 83 292. The Schoolmaster. W. 243. Full of spirit and carefully executed. Canvas, 12 J inches by loj inches. Sale. Amsterdam, June 5, 1765 (Terw. 462), No. 114 (17 florins). 293. A Schoolmaster. W. 244. A schoolmaster with a stick in his hand and two boys weeping. Panel, 7^ inches by 7 inches. Sale. P. Caauw, Leyden, August 24, 1768, No. 10 (21 florins). The picture in the Llirmann collection, Bremen exhibited in Bremen, October 1905 is probably a copy of this ; it measures 7^ inches by 7 inches. 294. A School. Composition of about twenty figures. The colour- ing is most delicate and the effect very fine. Panel, 10 inches by 15! inches. Sale. G. J. de Servais, Malines, July 21, 1775, No. 132 (134 florins 8). 294*7. A Schoolmaster. A schoolmaster flogging a red-haired boy. The mother complains, because her boy is bleeding at the nose. Nine other scholars seem to be terrified. On the walls are scholastic objects. Canvas, 14^" inches by n| inches. Sale. P. A. J. KnijfF, Antwerp, July 18, 1785, No. 211 (34 florins, Huybrechts). 295. A School. Sale. J. v. d. B., Rotterdam, May 14, 1787, No. 23. 296. A Schoolmaster teaching a Boy. Panel, 4 inches by 7 inches. Sale. W. Wreesman Borghartz, Amsterdam, April n, 1816, No. 175 (77 florins, Gruiter, with pendant "Drunken Peasant" [748^]). 297. A Village School. In a village school the master sits in the foreground cutting a quill pen. Beside him is a girl holding a paper. In the background are two or three boys at a table. [See 298*7.] Canvas on panel, 28^ inches by 25^ inches. Sales. H. Stokvisch, Amsterdam, May 22, 1823, No. 127 (180 florins, Jakobs). (Probably) C. Sedelmeyer, Paris, May 25-28, 1907, No. 175 (1000). 2970. A School. In the foreground is the master. Near him are some children, with others in the background. Sketchy in style. Sale. J. Roelofs, Amsterdam, March 8, 1824, No. 142 (25 florins). 298. The Schoolmistress. The mistress is teaching a girl ; a boy watches her with close attention ; near them are three other boys. Spirited in expression j the handling is broad and careful. Panel, 15 inches by 12^ inches. Sale. C. Buys, Amsterdam, April 4, 1827, No. 49 (120 florins).
