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x ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE 257 388^. A Village Schoolmaster with Pupils. About 13 inches by 15 inches. Sale. Hoorn, July 8, 1817, No. 87. 389. A School. Sm. Suppl. 9. Near a window of four casements, on the left of a spacious room, an old schoolmaster sits hearing a boy his lesson. Two other boys stand waiting their turn. Nearer the front two girls sit together ; one reads her book. An idle boy has slunk behind the master ; another sits dozing on the opposite side. The other pupils are grouped about the room. " This clever picture is painted in a free and spirited manner" (Sm.). Panel, 14 inches by 13^ inches. Sale. George Morant, London, 1832 (158:115., Sm., for Sir Henry Bunbury, Bart.). 390. A Dutch Village School. In a poorly lighted room several village children sit on benches. At the back is the schoolmaster. Signed in full ; panel, 7^ inches by 9^ inches. Sale. Ch. Sedelmeyer, Vienna, December 30, 1872, No. 131 (620 florins). 390*7. The Schoolmaster. Panel, 8 inches by 10 inches. In the collection of the Comtesse de Chinchon. Sale. Salamanca, Paris, January 25, 1875, No. 63. 390^. A School Interior. A fine composition. Sale. Ant. Sils, Antwerp, March 21, 1882, No. 98. 391. A Schoolmaster and Pupils. In an interior a schoolmaster sits at a table with two boys in front of him. Two others sit on a low bench to the right. A boy and a girl sit beneath a window. Others are at the back. Signed, and dated ; panel, 9 inches by 7 inches. Exhibited in the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1882, No. 120. Then in the collection of Alfred Buckley, London. 392. The School. In a spacious room, about fifteen boys and girls sit on benches ; most of them hold books. Four pupils stand round the master's desk to say their lessons. A little girl sits on the floor in the centre ; in the shadowed background a boy stands on a ladder. Signed in full on the right at foot and dated 163- ; panel, 7^ inches by 10 inches. Sale. G. Rothan, Paris, May 29, 1890, No. 81 (2500 francs). 392^. A Village School. Signed. Sale. Lord Waterpark and others, London, June 12, 1897, No. 103. 392^. A Village School. 17 inches by 21 inches. Sale. Pixell and others, London, March 27, 1899, No. 8. VOL. Ill s