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?2 GERARD TER BORCH SECT. 1950. Interior. Two well-dressed persons sit at table. A third is at the side. To the right is a child grasping a pot. At the side is a little negro. Sa/f.B. Mallinus, Brussels, September 22, 1842, No. 13. 195^. A Tea- Party. Exhibited at Leeds, 1868, No. 740. Then in the collection of Matthew Anderson, Jesmond Cottage, near Newcastle. igsc. A Room with a Seated Gentleman, a Dog, and Two Man-Servants. Sale. London, December 4, 1869, No. 121. 196. A Gentleman greeting a Lady. Sm. 41. A young gentle- man with long curls, who wears a buff coat, a cuirass, large jack-boots with spurs, and a sword, holds out his right hand to a lady ; his broad-brimmed hat is in his left hand. The lady wears an elegant white satin gown, and has her fair hair bound with ribbon. She lays her left hand on the gentle- man's outstretched right ; she holds her right hand with the fingers extended at her side. At a table in the background two ladies and a gentleman are seated. To the right are a large arm-chair and the chimney-piece. A chandelier hangs from the ceiling. Canvas, 30 inches by 26 inches. Mentioned as at Stafford House by Waagen (ii. 71), who says that it is delicately rendered but rather brown and lacking in transparency, and that it would gain much by cleaning. Engraved by A. W. Warren in the "Stafford Gallery," No. 71. Sales. D. letswaart, Amsterdam, April 20, 1740, No. 26 (405 florins). J. J. de Bruyn, Amsterdam, September 12, 1798, No. 80 (2705 florins, Van der Schley). Crawford, London, 1806 (252 or 240, according to Sm. Lord Stafford) see Buchanan, ii. 1833. In the collection of the Marquess of Stafford, 1833 (Sm.). Sold by the Duke of Sutherland to Morant in 1846 ; sold by Morant to Emery. In the possession of the London dealer Rutley (priced at ^1000) according to a MS. note by Sm. in his own copy of his catalogue. Sales. Due de Morny, Paris, May 21, 1865, No. 82 (41,000 francs). Marquis de Salamanca, Paris, June 3, 1867, No. 126 (35,000 francs). Mrs. Lyne Stephens, London, May 1 1, 1895, No. 347 (^2047 : ios., Lesser). 197. SOLDIERS AT AN INN. In the foreground of a room at an inn stands a solmer blowing a trumpet. He wears a plain uniform, high boots with spurs, and a fur cap, and has a sword at his side. Behind him to the left stands a young girl in a dark fur-trimmed gown, with a light cloth round her head. Her hands are folded. She looks towards a soldier, seated on a cask to the right, who drinks to her. This soldier holds his large plumed hat on his knee with one hand ; his long hair falls on his shoulders. Beside him sits another soldier lighting his pipe at a