xvii GERARD TER BORCH 117 369,7. Portrait of a Young Gentleman. He is in black, with a broad lace collar and ribbons. Panel, 7 inches by 5^ inches. Sales. C. Bowyer and others, London, February 17, 1908, No. 99. Lord Amherst of Hackney and others, London, December 12, 1908, No. 101. 370. Portrait of an Elderly Man. Half-length, standing. He is turned three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. He has a long, dark blonde peruke, and wears a white collar and a black cloak covering his arms. With his right hand he makes a gesture as if he is speaking ; his right-hand glove is in his gloved left hand. Signed in the background with the monogram ; canvas, 13 inches by 14 inches. Sale. G. R. Hoschek von Muhlheim, Vienna, March 24, 1909, No. 6 (480 krone). 371. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN. Half-length. She is turned three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. She wears a dark dress with a broad close-fitting collar of white lace and white cuffs. She holds a closed fan. In the centre of the collar is a small bow. Her face is framed in ringlets, and she wears a light bow above her right ear. Her bare neck is adorned with a slender chain. Wrongly regarded as a portrait of Geertruyd Matthyssen, wife of Ter Borch. [Pendant to 285.] Signed in the left background with the monogram ; oval copper, 14 inches by ii inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 4889, i. Bought at The Hague, 1868, with the pendant. In the collection of L. Dupper, Dordrecht ; bequeathed to the Rijks- museum, 1870. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1911 catalogue, No. 569. 372. PORTRAIT OF A LADY. Full length, standing. She is seen in full face, and looks at the spectator. She wears over a white moire petticoat a black dress with white cuffs and a plain white collar, and has a widow's cap. She holds a coloured fan in both hands before her. [Pendant to 286.] Signed on the left with the monogram, and dated "Aetatis 32 . 1656 "; canvas, 24 inches by 1 7! inches. Exhibited at Rotterdam, 1899 ; at The Hague, 1903, No. 4 ; and by the Amsterdam dealers Fred. Muller and Co., 1906, No. 14. In the collection of W. L. Luyken Glashorst, Amsterdam. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1911 catalogue, No. 575 ; exhibited on loan since 191 1. 373. PORTRAIT OF A LADY. Standing. She wears a black and white dress, and holds a fan. Beside her is a table with a dull purple cloth, on which is a finely decorated red service-book. Behind her is an arm-chair. At the back is a bed. [Pendant to 262.] Signed on the chair with the monogram ; canvas, 30 inches by 24 inches.
