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58 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL SECT. Bought from Henry Galley Knight before 1835 (Sm.). Sold by the dealer Brondgeest to A. van der Hoop, Amsterdam, before 1842 (Sm.). Sale. Jer. de Vries, Amsterdam, November 15, 1853, No. 100 (1700 florins, De Vries). 169. The Water-Mill. On the left stands a mill with fine trees at the back and sides. In front the sluice is built on piles. Under the wheel the water flows into a pool filling the whole foreground ; in the pool are rushes and ducks. On the far side of the pool, whose banks are protected by timbers and piles, are a group of figures and trees. Canvas, 21 inches by 26 inches. Sales. Paul Perier, Paris, March 1 6, 1843. Pierard of Valenciennes, Paris, March 20, 1860, No. 70 (1950 francs). 169,7. A Water-Mill in a Wooded Landscape. Fine tone. Signed ; panel, i8 inches by 23 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, April 24, 1860, No. no. 169^. Landscape with a Water-Mill. Two men. In front is a road with water running across it diagonally. Sale. C. Scarisbrick, London, May 11, 1861 (210, Tayleure). 169^. Landscape with a Water-Mill. Signed ; 15^ inches by 18 inches. Exhibited at Amsterdam, 1867, No. 173. Then in the collection of G. J. Schouten. 169^. A Water-Mill. Sm. 250. The mill stands amid trees ; the wheel is not working. The water flows through the sluice amid stones and falls in a cascade on the foreground. Signed, and dated 1653 canvas or panel, according to Waagen inches by 33 inches. Sales. J. Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam, July I, 1833, No. 70 (1980 florins, Clarke for Nieuwenhuis). Casimir Perier, London, May 5, 1848 (^367 : los., Gardner). J. D. Gardner, London, 1854 (.451 : ios., Brown). Sold by Brown to Edmund Foster. In the collection of Edmund Foster, Clewer Manor, 1857 (Waagen, Suppl. 287). Sale. Richard Foster of Clewer Manor, London, June 3, 1876 (1837 : IOS -> Durlacher). 169*. A Water-Mill. A man opens a sluice. A small picture. Sale. Baron de Ferrieres, London, July 8, 1876 Gii6 : us.). 170. TWO WATER-MILLS. In front is a still pool. To the left, farther back, is a thatched building with a mill-wheel to the right. On the right, behind two large trees in full leaf, is the other mill with two wheels on the left or narrow side. The two buildings are connected by