56 FRANS HALS SECT. 178. Nicholas Edgar, eldest son of Thomas Edgar of Glemham Magna. In black with a white lace collar and ruffles, and a gold belt. 45 inches by 34 inches. Sale. London, April 2, 1900, No. 86. 179. Thomas Edgar of Glemham Magna. In an embroidered black costume with a white collar and ruffles. His right hand rests on a table. Dated 1635 ; 45 inches by 36 inches. Sales. London, April 2, 1900, No. 85. London, June 22, 1903, No. 109. CATHARINA BOTH VAN DER EEM, wife of Paulus van Beresteyn. [See 155.] 180. STEPHANUS GERAERDTS (who died 1671), Alderman of Haarlem. M. 34. Half-length. He stands facing three-quarters right and looks to the right. He stretches out his right hand which is bare ; the gloved left hand holds the other glove. His long hair falls on his shoulders. He wears an embroidered black costume with a white collar and ruffles. Dark background. To the right is his coat-of-arms, con- sisting of a bird on a light ground and three gilt discs on a dark ground. Very loose in style ; painted probably about 1645. [Pendant to 181.] Canvas, 46 inches by 35 inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 2688. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1877, No. 29. In the collection of Newman Smith. In the possession of the Paris dealer E. Warneck, who bought it in England. In the collection of Prince Demidoff, San Donate. Sold by the Cologne dealers Bourgeois, 1886 (for 85,000 francs), to the Antwerp Museum. In the Antwerp Museum, 1905 catalogue, No. 674. 181. ISABELLA COYMANS (born after 1616 October 7, 1689), whose first husband was Stephanus Geraerdts. M. 35. Three- quarter-length, life size. She stands facing the spectator with her head inclined to the left. Her left arm hangs down, and the gloved left hand holds her right-hand glove. In her outstretched right hand is a red rose. Her brown hair hangs in long curls tied up with a bow. She wears a white skirt trimmed with silver lace, and a black overskirt and bodice with a white lace collar and cuffs. She has strings of pearls round her neck and her right wrist, and a watch hanging from a ribbon bow at her right side. On the left hangs her coat-of-arms, bearing three oxen's heads. A similar coat-of-arms occurs in 168, 169, and 304. [Pendant to 180.] Canvas, 49 inches by 50 inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 1785. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1877, No. 38. Exhibited at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. 38. In the collection of Newman Smith. In the possession of the Paris dealer E. Warneck.
