Hendrik Danckerts, or Dankerts, the artist, was born at the Hague about 1630, studied in Italy, and after his return was invited to England by Charles II, who employed him to paint pictures of royal palaces and sea-ports. Walpole speaks of his working in connection with Hollar. James II had various landscapes by him, and Samuel Pepys, who calls him “the great landscape painter,” mentions seeing him in 1668-69 and arranging for views of _Whitehall_, Hampton Court, Greenwich, and Windsor, to adorn his dining-room panels. Danckerts, who was a Roman Catholic, is said to have left England during the Popish Plot and to have died at Amsterdam soon afterwards. From what precedes we may be sure that the picture was painted between 1670 and about 1677, perhaps not much after the earlier date. By HENDRICK DANCKERTS (_c._ 1630-1678). _Lent by the Earl of Berkeley._ 97_a_ SEARLE’S BOAT-HOUSE, STANGATE, LAMBETH. Watercolour. 14 by 9¾ in. The famous boat builders, of Eton and Oxford, had an establishment on the Surrey side, much frequented by Westminster schoolboys before the formation of the Embankment and the removal of St. Thomas’s Hospital from High Street, Southwark, to Stangate. It will be seen that the boat-house was just above Westminster Bridge; it was afterwards moved to a point higher up the river. _Lent by Sir E. Coates._ 97_b_ BUILDINGS ADJOINING LAMBETH CHURCH. Watercolour. 10 by 6¼ in. Shows picturesque but tumbledown buildings formerly along the riverside at Lambeth. _Lent by Sir E. Coates._ 98_a_ ST. SAVIOUR’S CHURCH, SOUTHWARK. Watercolour. 9¾ by 7 in. Originally the church of the Priory of St. Mary Overy, after the Reformation St. Saviour’s parish church, and now Southwark Cathedral. View of the old nave from the west end, shortly before it was replaced by an unsightly nave in 1838-9. This also has disappeared, being rebuilt from the designs of the late Sir Arthur Blomfield. The choir and tower were “restored” 1822-5, by George Gwilt. By F. NASH (1782-1856). _Lent by Sir E. Coates._ 98_b_ WEST END OF ST. SAVIOUR’S CHURCH, SOUTHWARK, FROM THE SOUTH. Wash drawing in Indian ink. 6 by 9 in. Shows the entrance to Montagu Close, which appears also in 98_a_. It had been the precinct of Montagu House, taken down in a state of decay when the approaches of the present London Bridge were made. Here were the cloisters of the Priory. The original Montagu House was built by Sir Anthony Brown, afterwards Viscount Montagu. The small sepia drawing and the print from it give the other side of the entrance. J. C. Buckler, who did the larger drawing, belonged to a family of architects, and was a good topographical draughtsman. Many Southwark views by him are in the Guildhall Library. By J. C. BUCKLER, 1827 (1770-1851). _Lent by Sir E. Coates._ 99_a_ THREE CRANES WHARF. Wash drawing in Indian ink. 10 by 8¾ in.