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in GERARD DOU 453 346. Portrait of a Woman, said to be Dou's Mother. A half- length, showing both hands. Signed in full and dated 1639 ; panel, 7^ inches by 6 inches. Sale. Henry Doetsch, London, June 22, 1895, No. 423. 347. Portrait of Elizabeth van Essen. M. 195. A half-length, showing both hands. She wears a black dress and a collar. Canvas, 30 inches by 24 inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, 2407. In the Sinkenberg collection, Vienna. In the possession of Landauer, Stuttgart, 1863 (Parthey, i. 355). 348. REMBRANDT'S MOTHER. Sm..Suppl. 3; M. 181 and i86a. Neeltge Willems van Snytbroeck, wife of Harmen van Rijn. A half-length, without the hands ; the face is slightly bent down, and the figure is turned three-quarters left. She wears a fur-trimmed cloak and a brown fur ca P fastened with a white kerchief. The background is dark grey. Signed in full on the left, the original "v" in the name "Dov" having been altered to "u" ; panel, 9 inches by 7 inches, oval. See Martin, chap. i. Safe. G. Hoe t, The Hague, August 25, 1760, No. 53 (155 florins, Yver). In the Royal Prussian palaces ; mentioned at Sans Souci in 1763, 1770, 1819, 1863. Now in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1904 catalogue, No. 847. 349. REMBRANDT'S MOTHER. M. 182. A half-length, turned to the left against a grey background. She wears a dark red dress, a purple cloak trimmed with fur, and a brown cap over a white kerchief, and has glasses on her nose. She holds in both hands a paper which she is reading. [Compare 354.] Panel, 5 inches by 3^ inches, a tall oval. See Bode in Zahn, vi. 204 ; and Hofstede de Groot, Kunstchronik, new series, vol. ii. (1891), p. 562, etc. In the possession of Grunberg, Brussels. In the Dresden catalogue of 1817. Now in the Dresden Gallery, 1905 catalogue, No. 1718. 350. REMBRANDT'S MOTHER. M. 185. A half-length, turned to the right, against a grey background. She wears a purple cloak trimmed with fur and a black hat. She holds with both hands a book which she is reading, but looks up at the spectator. [Pendant to 36.] Panel, 6| inches by 5^ inches. The compiler once attributed this portrait to Rembrandt, owing to its similarity to the Hoekwater portrait (352) long assigned to that master. But, having recognised the Hoekwater portrait as a work of Dou's, he must assign the Dresden picture to the same hand. Recently Jan Veth has fallen into a similar error. Sales. J. van Teylingen, Leyden, June 30, 1744. Heirs of Caspar Netscher, The Hague, July 15, 1749.