54 FRANS HALS SECT. 1616, to Dorothea Berck. M. 28. Half-length. An old man turned three-quarters right, who looks at the spectator. His bare right hand grasps the wrist of his gloved left hand which holds the other glove. He has a white moustache and imperial. He wears a broad-brimmed black hat, a ruff and narrow white wristbands on a black costume. A cloak hangs from his left shoulder. In the right-hand top corner is his coat-of- arms with three oxen's heads. A similar coat-of-arms occurs in 168, 1 8 1, and 304. The sitter has been wrongly identified as Johan van Loo. [Pendant to 170. Possibly the same sitter is represented in 304.] Signed on the right below the shield with the monogram, and inscribed, " JET A SVJE 52 1643 " ; canvas, 31^ inches by 27 J inches. In the collection of Lord Glenesk. In the possession of Sir G. Donaldson, London. In the possession of the London dealer Martin Colnaghi. In the collection of Sir G. Drummond, Montreal. 170. DOROTHEA BERCK (1593 to after l6 7.7)> wife of Joseph Coymans. M. 29. Half-length. She sits almost facing the spectator, but inclined to the left. Her hands are folded on her lap. She looks at the spectator. Her dark hair, in long curls, is covered with a black silk hood. She wears a black dress with a padded skirt and a pointed collar, with cuffs of white cambric. On the left hangs her coat-of-arms, a birch- leaf divided into five parts. [Pendant to 169.] Signed on the left with the monogram, and inscribed, " jETAT SV^E 51. AN 1644" ; canvas, 31 inches by 27 inches. Mentioned in the Burlington Magazine, August 1908, vol. xiii. p. 293, by J. C. van Lennep. Exhibited at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. 36. In the Wollaston collection, London. In the collection of the late Rodolphe Kann, Paris, 1907 catalogue, No. 41 ; bought as a whole, August 1907, by the London dealers Duveen. In the collection of Mrs. Collis P. Huntington, New York. 171. WILLEM CROES. B. 26; M. 30. Half-length. A man seated in full face, but looking past the spectator to the right. His right hand rests on his hip ; his left hand holds out his gloves. He has long hair and wears a little moustache and imperial. He wears a black coat and a black cloak hanging from the left shoulder and wound round the waist, with a close-fitting white collar and white wristbands. Painted about 1658. Panel, 19 J inches by I2| inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 1808. Exhibited at Amsterdam, 1872 ; at The Hague, 1881, No. 150 ; and at the Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague. In the collection of Steengracht van Oosterland, The Hague. In the collection of Baron C. C. A. van Pallandt, The Hague. In the collection of Countess van Linden, born Van Pallandt, Lisse. In the Van Stolk collection, Haarlem. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich ; acquired in 1906.
