ix FRANS HALS 6 5 bound in black velvet with silver clasps. She wears a white cap and a white ruff on a black dress. To the left at top is her coat-of-arms Inscribed, "jETATIS SVJE 62 (and under this) AN 1679"- canvas, 51 inches by 37^ inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 8653, i ; under 2 he mentions another portrait of this woman in the collection of Arthur Sanderson, Edinburgh. [Compare note to 210.] In the Van der Hoop collection, Amsterdam. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Van der Hoop bequest, 1907 catalogue, No. 1088. 213. TYMAN OOSDORP [born at Delft; died at Haarlem February 28, 1668; married (i) Hester Olycan, and (2), in 1658, Margarethe Schellinger (1611-1668)]. B. 93; M. 63. Half-length. His figure is in profile to the right ; his head is turned three-quarters right. He looks at the spectator. His hair is combed down on his fore- head. He is in black with a close-fitting white collar and a cloak, out of which projects his left hand holding his hat. Finely painted. On the back is an eighteenth-century label inscribed, " F. Hals p. 1656. Tyman Oosdorp." Canvas, 35^ inches by 28 inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 5559. Acquired for Berlin in 1877. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1906 catalogue, No. 80 1 H. 214. Marie Panvis. Sale. Jacob van Leyen, Amsterdam, April 17, 1720 (Hoet, i. 247), No. 35 (13 florins 5). Aeltgen Dircksdr. Pater, wife of Jan de Wael(?). [See 241.] 215. FRANS POST (about 1620-1680), Painter, of Haarlem. B. 144 ; M. 64. He sits on a chair to the right ; his figure and head are turned three-quarters right. He looks at the spectator. He leans on the arm of the chair with his left elbow. He is in black with a close-fitting white collar, and wears a tall black hat. He has an imperial and long hair. Panel, 1 1 inches by 9 inches. Engraved by J. Suyderhoef. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 6034. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1873, and 1882, No. 123 ; at the Portrait Exhibition, The Hague, 1903, No. 39 ; and at the Rembrandt Exhibition of the Amsterdam dealers F. Mailer, 1906, No. 57. Sales. J. van der Marck, Amsterdam, August 25, 1773. Amsterdam, May 10, 1830, No. 142 (i florin, Gruyter). J. Smies, J. H. Knoop, and others, Amsterdam, February 24, 1834, No. 45. A. Levy, London, 1876 (157: ios.). In the collection of J. Walter, Bearwood. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1902, No. 19. In the collection of H. Teixeira de Mattos, Vogelenzang. VOL. Ill F
