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FLIXCK horsemen galloping to right on the river- bank ; in background, left, under a rock shaded by trees, shepherds and their flocks around a fire. Collection of Louis XIV. Engraved by I. C. Marinus ; C. Galle ; 11. Flight into Egypt, Munllo, Duchesse de Galliera. Lowry. Same composition with changes, Cossel Gallery, to which it was returned in 1815 from Paris. By Tiiitori'lto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice ; canvas. A lovely landscape, with the Ma- donna and St. Joseph pacing along a shady path on the banks of a river. The Virgin's head is very beautiful ; the head of the ass is wonderfully painted. Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 328. By Adrian van der Wrrff, Hague Museum ; wood, H. 1 ft. C in. x 1 ft. 3 in.; signed, dated 1710. The Virgin, with Jesus in her arms, is seated upon an ass led by Joseph beside a stream, near which are trees and the ruins of a portico. Painted by the artist for his daughter, who sold it for 4,000 florins to J. van Schuyleuburg, at The Hague, from whom it passed through several other hands to the Hague Museum. Carried to Paris under the empire ; returned in 1815. En- graved by Avril in Musee fran<;ais. Filhol. Subject treated also by Guido, Brussels and Naples Museums; Carlo Marat ti, Vi- enna Museum ; II Scarsellino, Dresden Mu- seum ; Alessandro Turchi, Madrid Museum ; Luca Cambiaso, Palazzo Barberini, Rome ; (iaudcnzio Ferrari, Church of Minorites, Varallo ; Lodovico Cardi, Louvre ; L. Bas- sano, Madrid Museum ; Murillo, Hermit- age, St. Petersburg; id., Pesth Gallery; id., Mrs. Culling Hanbury, Bedwell Park, Herts ; Adam Elsheimer, Munich and Dres- den Galleries, Louvre, and Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Domenico Feti, Vienna Museum; Filippo Lauri, ib. ; Herri de Dies, ib.; Joachim de Patinir, Munich and Madrid Museums and London Gallery ; Velvet Brue- ghel, Besaneon Museum ; Frans Fraucken, elder, Dresden Museum ; Frans Franeken, younger, Uftix.i, Florence ; Francois Boucher, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Eugene Deveria (Salon, 18t58); P. A. Jeanron (Exposition Universelle, 1855); Joseph Beaume (ib.); J. J. Bellel (ib.); Paul Flandrin (Salon, 1HIJ1). FLLXCK, GOVAFRT, born at Cleves, Jan. '25, 1(11 5, died in Amster- dam, Feb. 2, i <;<;o. Dutch school ; history and por- trait painter, pu- pil of Lambert Jacobzen at Leeu- warden, then of Rembrandt, un- der whom his talent developed so rapidly that after one year his pictures could scarcely be distinguished from those of the master. He left Rembrandt in l(!l!8, and took the freedom of Amsterdam in Ki5'J. After Eeckhout, he was the scholar who ap- proached nearest to Rembrandt. His best pictures are of the period KJ40-50 ; later, having studied the old Italian masters, lie aimed at precision of form rather than at