48 FRANS HALS SECT. 148. Portrait of the Painter. Canvas, 27 inches by 24 inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 3139, n. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1875, No. 146. Sale. A. Levy, London, June 16, 1876 (262 : ios., M. Colnaghi). ANNA VAN DER AAR, wife of P. Scriverius. [See 225.] 149. JOHANNES ACRONIUS (1565-1627), Preacher. B. 85 ; M. 10. In a painted oval. Half-length. An old man with a beard faces three-quarters left. He wears a black cap and a black costume with a low ruff. He holds an open book in his left hand ; his right touches the frame. He looks keenly at the spectator. Signed on the right, "AETAT. SVAE. 62 A 1627"; panel, -j inches by 6 inches. Engraved by J. van de Velde. Sales. J. Enschede, Haarlem, May 30, 1786, No. 83. Jer. de Bosch, Amsterdam, April 6, 1812, No. 28. B. de Bosch, Amsterdam, March 10, 1817, No. 10. In the Reimer collection, Berlin ; bought from it for the Museum, 1843. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1906 catalogue, No. 767. 150. DANIEL VAN AKEN. M. 1 1 . Half-length, life size. A smiling violin-player of middle age faces the spectator, but bends slightly to the right. He has an imperial, and wears a brownish-grey costume with a broad white collar edged with lace and a soft broad-brimmed hat to match his clothes. In the Rotterdam Museum is a small drawing by Mathys van den Bergh, dated 1655, a ^ ter ^is picture, which was thus painted earlier than that year ; the sitter's name is given on the drawing as Daniel van Aken. Canvas, 26^ inches by 22^ inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 87. Mentioned by Olaf Granberg, Les Collections Privees de la Suede, 1886, i. 115, No. 220. In the Schlegel collection. In the Anckarsward collection, 1844. Sale. Gripenstedt, Stockholm, May 3, 1888. In the National Museum, Stockholm ; 1903 supplement to 1900 catalogue, No. 1567 ; bought in 1901 (for 33,500 krone). 151. SAMUEL AMPZING (1591-1632), Preacher at Haarlem. M. 12. Half-length. He is turned three-quarters right but looks at the spectator. He has a moustache and a rather long beard. In his left hand he holds a book with his forefinger between the pages. He wears a black robe with a white ruff. Greenish - grey background. Extraordinarily vivacious and very beautiful. The white collar is finely relieved against the flesh. Inscribed, " JET AT. 40 AN 1630 " ; copper, 6 inches by inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 149, i. Engraved by J. van de Velde and J. Suydcrhoef.
