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In Holland. 547 Job Berck-Heyde (1630 — 1693) was a painter of archi- tectural subjects, in which he executed the figures, of landscapes, and even of portraits. Works by him are in most continental galleries. His younger brother, Gerrit Berck-Heyde (1638 — 1698), was, after Emanuel de Witte and Van der Heyden, one of the best architectural painters of Holland. He sometimes painted the figures in his own pictures, but he was fre- quently indebted for them to his brother Job, who excelled him in figure painting. Melchior d'Hondecoeter (1636—1695), of Utrecht, was one of the best of the painters of poultry-yards. There are Swans and Peacocks by him, in the Louvre ; the Fight between a , Cock and a Turkey, at the Hermitage ; the Menagerie of Birds, at the Hague; the Floating Feather at Amsterdam ; and Domestic Poultry, and Geese and Bucks, in the National Gallery. Jan Weenix (1640 — 1719), called "the younger," to dis- tinguish him from his father, whose style he greatly acquired. For his subjects Weenix chose small game — hares, pheasants, snipe, ducks, birds of all sorts — of the finest forms and colours, which he grouped with hunting weapons, or under the charge of a dog. Many of his best pictures are in England ; the National Gallery has but one, Dead Game and a Dog ; his masterpiece, The Pheasant, is in the Hague Gallery. Willem Kalf (1630—1693) is celebrated for his pictures of inanimate nature, vegetables, pots and pans, which he arranges, and lights up at his pleasure. Jan Davidsz de Heem (1600 — 1647), a painter of fruit N N 2