248 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL SECT. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1888, No. 1 06. Then in the collection of S. Clarke, London. 785. AN 9LD WALL NEAR A STILL POOL. The pool is shaded by high trees. In the right foreground two boys are fishing. Evening. Signed with the monogram ; canvas, 14 J inches by 17^ inches. Exhibited at Berlin, 1890, No. 251. Then in the collection of L. Lachmann, Berlin. 786. COUNTRY SCENE WITH RUINED CASTLE. Sm. 44. To the left of a flat landscape is a large ruin, built of brick and con- sisting of two towers with a high archway, through which a road runs. A man, leading a child by the left hand, walks under the archway : beyond him is another man. Bushy trees rise above the wall. To the right is a meadow, divided from the foreground by a fence. In the right foreground is an old well with a tree-trunk lying to the left of it. In front is a pool, with brambles. " This excellent picture is of the most esteemed quality and unusually luminous " (Sm.). [Possibly identical with 768*7.] Signed in full in the left foreground ; panel, 18^ inches by 25 inches. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1832 and 1845 ; at Man- chester, 1857 ; and at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1872. Sales. Morelli, 1782 (2300 francs). Calonne, Paris, April 21, 1788 (3500 francs). Coders, Paris, February 9, 1789 (2750 francs). In the collection of W. Smith, M.P., and sold from it privately. Sales. London, 1823 (^241 : ios., bought in). Lord Radstock, London, May 12, 1826 (.175). In the collection of Charles Bredel, London, 1835 (Sm.). Sales. Bredel, London, May I, 1875 (2310, Rose). Earl of Dudley, London, June 25, 1892, No. 22. In the collection of George Salting, London ; bequeathed to the National Gallery, 1909. In the National Gallery, London, No. 2562. 786^7. The Towers of a Castle. In a landscape with thick woods. In the right distance, near a little pool, are the ruins of old buildings. Two men and a dog. Panel, 9 inches by loj inches. Sale. Stiels and others, Cologne, May 24, 1897. 787. A RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH A CASTLE. The river flows under the ruined arches of a bridge. Two swans are to the right at foot. On the right is a castle with tall chimneys. In the left foreground are a group of four trees and another castle, with two men and a child. In the distance, near a wood, are two figures. On the right are a sunlit house and a red brick bridge. Canvas, 27 inches by 20 inches. In the Morartt collection, Intwood Hall. Sale. London, May 27, 1897, No. 164 (184).
