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PREFACE I HAVE only a few words to say in preface to this volume which describes the work of the painters Gerard ter Borch, Caspar Netscher, Godfried Schalcken, Pieter van Slingeland, and Eglon Hendrik van der Neer. It has been compiled on the same principles as were observed in the preceding volumes. Dr. Eduard Plietzsch has revised the sections devoted to Ter Borch, Slingeland, and Van der Neer ; Dr. Karl Lilienfeld has revised the Netscher and Schalcken sections. C. HOFSTEDE DE GROOT. THE HAGUE, August 1912.
