454 PIETER VAN SLINGELAND SECT. 1 1 8. A Company of Five Persons. Sm. i. Wonderfully delicate in execution. 21 inches by 17^ inches. S*. Adriaan Bout, The Hague, August II, 1733 (Hoet, i. 389), No. 56 (1050 florins). uSa. A Cottage Interior. A man is seated. A boy leans on his knee. In front of him is an earthenware pot. On the floor at the side are a tub, a duck, and fruit. A meritorious picture. Panel, 5 inches by 6 inches. Sale.]. F. Wolschot, Antwerp, September I, 1817, No. 195. 119. At the Barn-Door. In the foreground of the barn are various domestic utensils. A boy and girl come from the door. The picture is painted in the master's very best manner. Panel, u inches by 14 inches. Sale. G. Schimmelpenninck, Amsterdam, July 12, 1819, No. in (119 florins, Brondgeest). An Interior. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1847, No. 116. Then in the collection of P. Botfield. 120. INTERIOR WITH A LADY SEATED AND A MAN-SERVANT. A sportsman enters at a door in the background. 1 8 inches by 14 inches. Sale. London, May 13, 1893, No. 82. 120*. A Peasant with a Seated Woman. At the back is another peasant. Signed in full on the right j panel, 8| inches by 6 inches. Sale. Munich, April 25, 1904, No. 95. 121. A BOY ANGLING. Sm. 18. On the right, near a tree beside a reedy pool, stands a boy, who looks with a smile at the spectator. His head is bare ; he wears a long coat. He holds up his fishing-rod in his right hand ; in his left hand is a struggling fish. On the bank in front are flowers. In the wooded distance is a church-tower. In the left middle distance is a heap of bricks. Two birds are flying in the cloudy sky. Signed in full ; panel, io| inches by 8 inches. Sale. P. van Buytene, Delft, October 29, 1749, No. 8 (300 florins). In the possession of Willem Lormier, The Hague, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 437) ; according to his store-room catalogue of December 1754, No. 239, he had bought it from B. Wannaar (for 330 florins). Sales. W. Lormier, The Hague, June 4, 1763 (Terw. 328), No. 229 (115 florins). C. A. de Calonne, London, March 23, 1795, No. 19 (33 : 125.) ; see Buchanan, i. 243. Countess of Holderness, London, March 6, 1802, No. 55 ' !3 s - G. Fagel) ; see Buchanan, i. 314.
