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7 o FRANS HALS SECT. Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1891, No. 69 ; in the Portrait Exhibition at The Hague, 1903, No. 36. Sale. Comte d'Oultremont, Brussels, June 27, 1889 (Arnold and Tripp). In the possession of the Paris dealers Arnold and Tripp. In the collection of Sir Cuthbert Quilter, London. 232. MARIA LARP (buried November 15, 1675), wife of Pieter Tjarck. M. 78. Half-length, in a painted oval. She faces three- quarters left and looks at the spectator. Her left hand is at her bosom ; the right hand is not shown. She wears a white cap, a ruff, a black dress embroidered with white at the bosom, and lace wristbands. The colour of the face is very life-like. [Pendant to 231.] Panel, 30 inches by 27 inches. See Moes, Iconografhia Batava, No. 4378. Exhibited at Brussels, 1882. Sale. Comte d'Oultremont, Brussels, June 27, 1889 (Arnold and Tripp). In the possession of the Paris dealers Arnold and Tripp. In the collection of W. C. Alexander, London. 233. [No entry.] 234. NICOLAES TULP (?) (1593-1674), Physician, Burgomaster of Amsterdam. B. 21 ; M. 79. He is turned to the right, but his head is seen almost in full face. He looks at the spectator, and holds his right hand on his breast. He has a full brown moustache and imperial. He is in black, with a large broad-brimmed hat and a white collar and cuffs. Painted over a portrait of 1634. Dated on the back, August 12, 1644 ; canvas, oval, 28 inches by 22 inches. Exhibited in the Six Exhibition, Amsterdam, 1900, No. 39. In the collection of J. Six, Amsterdam. 234^7. Nicolaes Tulp. [Possibly identical with 234.] Sale. Jan Matthias Cok, Amsterdam, December 1 6, 1771, No. 94 (3 florins). 235. Verdonck. M. 80. Half-length. A vagabond, turned to the right with his head almost in full face, looks at the spectator. He holds up a jawbone in his left hand. He has bristly hair, a moustache and a pointed beard. He is in black with a close-fitting white collar. The engraving does not mention the painter's name. See Moes, Iconographia Bafava, No. 8369. Described from a print by J. van de Velde ; the original is lost. 236. CONRADUS VIETOR (1588-1657), Lutheran Preacher of Haarlem. B. 135 ; M. 81. Half-length. He faces right. He has a dark-brown beard and moustache, and holds a book in his clasped hands. He wears a black coat, cloak, hat, and high collar. The hands are modelled in a masterly fashion. Signed on the right with the monogram, and inscribed, "M. Con- radus Victor aetatis 56," with the date 1644; panel, 12^ inches by 10 inches.