xni JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 7 teenth century), attained in their best productions much the same standard as Dubois and Van Hees. It would take too long to discuss them separately here. But it may be noted that the R in the signature of the two Rombouts and in the Christian name of Roelof van Vries has often been used to make a false Ruisdael monogram. Artists less closely related to Ruisdael were JAN LOOTEN (1618-81), with his forest-scenes, which are often imposing and not without merit ; ANTONIE WATERLOO (1609 or io-after 1676), who is better known and more deserving of praise as an etcher than as a painter ; ABRAHAM VER- BOOM (1628-70) ; and JAN LAGOOR, an etcher, who is only known as a landscape-painter by one signed work, now in the Budapest Museum. Three other etchers, CLAES VAN BERESTEYN (who flourished in the second half of the seventeenth century), JAN VAN BROSTERHUISEN (1596-1650), and JOHANNES RUISCHER (who flourished in the middle of the seventeenth century), took the same artistic standpoint as Ruisdael, but no pictures by them have yet been discovered. TRANSLATOR'S NOTE In the references added to the entries in the Catalogue " Sm." = Smith, "Catalogue Raisonne," vol. vi. (1835). "Sm. Suppl." = Smith, "Catalogue Raisonne," Supplement (1842). In the entries " Hoet " = " Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schilderyen, meet derzelven pryzen Zedert een langen reeks van Jaaren zoo in Holland als op andere Plaatzen in het openbaar verkogt. Benevens een Verzame- ling van Lysten van Verscheyden nog in Wesen zynde Cabinetten uytgegeven door Gerard Hoet." Two volumes. [Covering sales from 1676 to 1752.] (The Hague, 1752.) "Terw." = The continuation of Hoet's work in a third volume, covering sales from 1752 to 1768, and describing the Royal collection at The Hague, by Pieter Terwesten. (The Hague, 1770.) " Parthey " = " Deutscher Bildersaal. Verzeichnis der in Deutschland vorhandenen Olbilder verstorbener Maler aller Schulen. In alpha- betischer Folge zusammengestellt von Gustav Parthey." (Berlin, 1863-64.)
