xiv MEINDERT HOBBEMA 437 Panel, 12^ inches by 21 inches. Acquired in 1895 from a private collection in Frankfort-on-Main. In the collection of the late Alfred Thieme, Leipzig, 1900 catalogue, No. 42 catalogued as by a Dutch master. 259. A VILLAGE BY A CANAL. A placid canal leads from the foreground to the distance. In front is a man in a boat. To the left, and farther back, is another boat with two men. On the left bank are several large houses, near which, in the centre, rises a great tree with wide- spreading branches. On the right bank are smaller trees. In front are a fence and a well. The light falls from the left, so that the sides of the houses on the left which face the water lie in deep shadow. An early work. Panel, i8| inches by 22 inches. In the possession of the London dealers P. and D. Colnaghi. 260. A WOODED RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH A BOAT. Sm. 40. In front is a piece of ground with a fallen tree and a hedge. Beyond is a river ; a man rows two gentlemen in a boat to the right. The farther bank is thickly wooded. To the left is water with a small green island. The bank beyond it is also wooded. Above the trees rise a church tower and, to the left of it, some roofs. The wood to the right is dark. The landscape to the left is in full sunlight. [Compare 262.] Signed in full in the centre foreground ; panel, 13 inches by 15 inches. A good water-colour copy measuring 15^ inches by 13 inches was made by G. J. Verburgh when the picture was in the Cremer collection ; this copy was in the sale : H. F. Groen van Waarder and others, Amsterdam, December 20, 1905, No. 1013. A copy occurred in the sale : Professor A. W. Freund and others, Amsterdam, February 20, 1906, No. 184. Sales. H. Muilman, Amsterdam, April 12, 1813, No. 63 (640 florins, T. T. Cremer). T. T. Cremer, Rotterdam, April 16, 1816 (1300 florins, Van Os). Jurriaans, Amsterdam, August 23, 1817, No. 24 (1610 florins, De Vries). Jan Ancher, Amsterdam, April 6, 1847, No. 26 (3415 florins, Brondgeest). Bought in Holland in 1847 by the dealer Chaplin. In the collection of Thomas Baring, London, 1854 (Waagen, ii. 187). In the collection of the Earl of Northbrook, London, 1889 catalogue, No. 62. 261. LANDSCAPE WITH A BROAD RIVER. Sm. Suppl. 2. On the farther bank of a river in the foreground are three clumps of trees with cottages behind them j the trees recede into the right distance. On the river is a boat with two figures. Silvery clouds in the clear sky. Fine reflections in the water. Painted under the influence of Ruisdael. Signed in full on the right at foot, and said to be dated 1650 ; panel, 19 inches by 26| inches. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1839; and in Paris, 1911, No. 72.
