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ix FRANS HALS in In her right hand is a handkerchief; her left hand grasps her dress, which is of black silk embroidered with gold. She wears a cap, lace-trimmed wristbands, and a ruff. Dark background. It is very prettily rendered, and therefore at first sight is not convincing ; but it is certainly genuine, and is not smoother than, for example, the " Aletta Hanemans " at The Hague (209). Painted about 1635. Canvas, 46 inches by 34! inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1880, No. 64 ; and 1902, No. 97. In the collection of W. F. S. Dugdale, London. 384. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN. M. 206. Half-length. She is turned slightly to the left, and looks at the spectator. Her left hand is at her breast ; her right hand holds her fan. She wears a black dress trimmed with lace, a close-fitting cap, a white lace collar and wristbands, and a pearl necklace. Grey background. Painted about the years 1635-40. Canvas, 31^ inches by 25^ inches. Exhibited in the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1903, No. 45. Exhibited at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. 31. Purchased in the Isle of Wight, 1896, from the grandson of George IV.'s cook, who had formerly owned it, by the London dealers Dowdeswell. In the possession, successively, of the London dealer C. Wertheimer ; of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer ; and the London dealers T. Agnew and Sons. In the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, London. 385. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN. M. 192. Almost three- quarter-length. She faces the spectator. Her left hand holds her black fan, which hangs down ; her right hand toys with her gold chain, wound several times round her neck. She wears a black dress embroidered with gold in front, a lace-trimmed cap, a tight-fitting double lace collar, and wristbands. Canvas, 32 inches by 22 J inches. In the collection of Robert Gwilt, Icklingham, Suffolk. In the possession of the London dealers T. Agnew and Sons till 1889. In the collection of the late George Salting, London ; bequeathed to the national collections, 1909. 386. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN. B. 150; M. 94 Com- monly called the artist's wife. Half-length. She is seen almost in full face, though slightly inclined to the left, and looks at the spectator. The fingers of her left hand are thrust into the bosom of her dress ; the right hand is not shown. She wears a white cap, a dark dress, and a thin ruff. Behind her on the wall is a narrow moulding running horizontally, and, to the left, perpendicularly, apparently the frame of a map or picture. [Pendant to 292.] Inscribed to the left at top, "aetat suae 60 (and under this) anno 1628 ' ; circular panel, 8 inches in diameter. Mentioned by Waagen, Suppl. 354. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1876, No. 212.