xiii JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 51 swans swimming and a third flying. On the far side of the pool is a large water-mill ; on the gable side of it, which is turned to the front, is the large water-wheel. Close to the wheel is a wooden bridge, on the right side of which stand two men ; a third man goes away up the road. Hobbema painted the same mill in a picture of 1662 which was in the Kums collection, sold in 1898 (Hobbema, 108). Cf. also Hobbema, 94. [Possibly identical with 168 and with I58/.] Signed in full on the right, and dated 1661 ; canvas, 25 inches by 31 inches. In the Le Brun collection. Sales. De Clesne, Paris, December 4, 1786 (1250 francs). Wilkinson, London, 1828 (73 : ios., Sm.). Sold by Sm. to a foreign dealer, 1829. In the collection of A. van der Hoop, Amsterdam, 1842 (Sm.) ; bequeathed with the collection to Amsterdam in 1854. Said in the Rijksmuseum catalogue to have been purchased by Van der Hoop from Jo. de Vries in 1858 (possibly a misprint for 1853). In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Van der Hoop bequest, 1910 catalogue, No. 2077. 146. THE WATER-MILL. View across the mill-pool towards the water-mill, which stands amid trees. The same mill as that painted by Hobbema, as, for example, in the two pictures at the Rijksmuseum (see Hobbema, 66, 67). The building on the right is roofed with red tiles, and the timbers are grey. To the left is a green hill. There is no distant view. On the road to the left is a man, followed by a dog. To the right is a flowering elder bush. To judge from the style, the picture was probably painted about the time when Hobbema and Ruisdael worked together (1660-63). Signed with the monogram on the left ; canvas, 25 inches by 27^ inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1876, No. 80, and 1902, No. 134. In the collection of the Right Hon. Lewis Fry, Clifton, Bristol. 147. A SLUICE BETWEEN THE TWO WHEELS OF A WATER-MILL. To the left is the mill ; to the right is a ruin. A man in red is on the sluice. An early picture, strongly lighted. In the collection of Sir Audley Neeld, Grittleton House. 148. THE WATER-MILLS. Sm. 17. In the left centre are two water-mills on either side of a stream flowing to the right front. The mill to the left is partly cut off by the frame and hidden by an oak tree. Between the mills are three water-wheels, two on the left and one on the right, with an open sluice-gate in the centre, through which the stream rushes down. A man stands on the footbridge above raising the gate. Behind the mill on the right is a tree. Beyond the sluice on the right bank is another house. On the left bank in front are reeds. In the right foreground is a tree-trunk in the water, with plants on the bank. A flight of steps goes up the right bank to a path up a hill, on the top of
