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xvin CASPAR NETSCHER 239 Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1876, No. 86 ; and at the New Gallery, London, 1901, No. 137. In the collection of the Earl of Radnor, Longford Castle, 1909 catalogue, No. 100 ; it was there before 1820. 297. MARY STUART, wife of William III., and Queen of England. Sm. 75, and Suppl. 15. Full length, in a three-quarter view to the left. She is seated in a garden, wearing an orange satin gown cut low at the neck. With her right hand she holds to her bosom her blue cloak trimmed with ermine ; her left hand, which hangs down, holds up the hem of the cloak. Her curly hair is parted in the middle and falls on her neck. She wears a pearl necklace. In the back- ground to the right are a blue curtain embroidered with gold, a column, and a colossal marble vase adorned with reliefs. To the left at the lady's feet is a flowering plant in a pot. Beside her to the left is a fountain with a marble group of Venus with Cupid bestriding a dolphin. On the edge of the basin a parrot is perched. In the left background, between trees and roses in bloom, a marble group of Hercules and Cacus is relieved against the blue sky. Signed in full, and dated 1683 ; panel on canvas, 32 inches by 25 J inches. A replica, the pendant to 283 (Rijksmuseum), is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Van der Hoop bequest, 1911 catalogue, No. 1733- Another replica is in the Potocka collection, Wilanowa, near Warsaw, as a portrait of " Marie Cazimire de Lagrange d'Arquienne, wife of John Sobiesky III.," according to the St. Petersburg catalogue of 1901. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 4805, 10. Engraved by Houbraken. In the possession of W. Lormier, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 433) ; who had acquired it from the estate of Van Th (for 470 florins), according to his store-room catalogue of December 1754, No. 196. Sale. W. Lormier, The Hague, July 4, 1763, No. 193 (310 florins). Acquired by the Empress Catherine II. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 882 ; it was there in 1842 (Sm., who described it as a "Portrait of a Lady" and valued it at 105). 298. Mary Stuart, wife of William III., and Queen of England. In the collection of Albertina Agnes of Orange-Nassau, Leeuwaarden ; in the 1 68 1 inventory, No. 88. 298*7. Mary Stuart, wife of William III., as Princess of Orange. In the collection of Henriette Catharina von Anhalt ; mentioned in the inventory of her goods, 1708, No. 8 (valued at 50 thaler, and allotted to Maria Eleanora von Radzivil). 298^. Mary Stuart, wife of William III., and Queen of England. 15^ inches by 13! inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 4805, 9. In the collection of Nicolaas van Breemen, The Hague, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 488) ; not mentioned in the sale-catalogue.