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In Holland. 539 de Velde gave to Wynants, that of painting the figures of men and animals in his pictures. Jan Both (ab. 1610— aft. 1662), who first studied in Holland under Bloemart, and subsequently visited Italy, and was impressed by the works of Claude Lorrain ; and his brother, Andries Both (ab. 1609 — bef. 1644), produced conjointly many landscapes with figures — the former doing the landscape and the latter adding the figures — in which Italian influence is visible. Pieter van Laar (1613 — 1674), called Bamboccio, also painted Italian scenes. Salomon van Ruysdael (ab. 1606 — 1670) was a pupil of Van Goyen, and the instructor of his famous nephew Jacob van Ruysdael. He painted views on the banks of the rivers and canals of his native country. Aart van der Neer (1619? — 1683?), more even than Gerard van Honthorst, was the poet of the night. Of his works we may especially notice, in the National Gallery, a Landscape, with figures and cattle by Cuyp, who has signed his name on a pail ; also a River Scene and a Canal Scene ; and in the Berlin Museum one of his many pictures repre- senting a Moonlight Scene. He is well represented in the private galleries of England and on the Continent. Philips Wouwerman (1619 — 1668) painted an almost incredible number of works; but it is probable, however, that he did not execute all the pictures attributed to him. There is ascribed to him, sixty-six in the Dresden Museum, fifty in the Hermitage, seventeen at Munich, thirteen at the Louvre, ten in Buckingham Palace, eight in the National Gallery, nine in the Dulwich Gallery ; and there are, besides, innumerable works dispersed through the gal- leries and cabinets of the whole world. Wouwerman is the