82 FRANS HALS SECT. 284. Portrait of a Laughing Man. M. 155 and 265. Half- length. He faces the spectator. He is in brown, with a big black hat. Light background. Signed with the monogram ; canvas, 24 inches by 2O inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1881, No. 59. In the collection of H. L. Bischoffsheim, London. 285. PORTRAIT OF A MAN STANDING. B. 146 ; M. 125. Full-length. He is turned three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. His left hand is pressed to his side. He holds between the thumb and fore- finger of his right hand a stick which rests on the ground. He has long hair. He wears a broad-brimmed hat, a coat, knee-breeches, long stockings, buckled shoes, a lace collar and ruffles, and a cloak, which hangs from the left shoulder over the left forearm. Behind him is a piece of architecture with a drapery. To the left is a view into the open, with two figures, and verdure in the left-hand bottom corner. Canvas, 25 inches by 20 inches. In the Royal collection at Kensington Palace about 1800. In the Royal collection at Hampton Court Palace, 1898 catalogue, No. 676. In the Royal collection, Buckingham Palace, London. 286. PORTRAIT OF A MAN. B. 134; M. 125. Three- quarter-length. He faces three-quarters right, and looks at the spectator. His head is bare. His right hand is pressed to his side ; his left hand holds his gloves. He has a moustache and a pointed beard. He is in black, with a ruff and wristbands. Inscribed at top to the right, " JET AT SV^E 36 (and under this) AN 1630" ; canvas, 45^ inches by 34 inches. Mentioned by Waagen, ii. 4. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1875, No. 142, and 1892, No. 124. In the Royal collection, Buckingham Palace, London. 287. PORTRAIT OF A MAN STANDING. B. 137; M. 156 and 157. In a painted oval. His figure is seen to the hips. He is turned three-quarters right, and looks at the spectator. He has folded his arms on his breast. He has a moustache and a pointed beard. He wears a dark broad-brimmed hat, a white ruff and wristbands, a dark costume with embroidered sleeves, and a long cloak that hangs down. It is regarded, inaccurately, as a pendant to 372. Painted between 1630 and 1635. Canvas, 42 inches by 33! inches. Mentioned by Waagen, ii. 94. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 3139, i. Exhibited at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1904, No. 280. In the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, London. 288. PORTRAIT OF A MAN. M. 124. He faces three- quarters right. He holds his gloves in his right hand and his hat in his left. He is in black, with a high ruff. Grey background.
