463. **Exquisite miniature portrait by Ter Burg, which should be inspected closely. 328. Van der Neer: The Burning of Dordrecht. A lurid small piece. 501. A. de Voys: The Jolly Drinker. Highly characteristic of Dutch sentiment. 528. Landscape by Wynants. The other still life and fruit or flower pieces on this wall need no comment. =End wall.= 616. Weenix: Dutch lady dressing, with good effects of light and colour. 203. Frans Hals: **Portrait of W. van Heythuysen. One of his finest works. Broadly executed, and full of dash and bravado. 496. Excellent still life by Jan Weenix. 522. De Witte: Fine architectural church interior. 222. Above it, *peacock and other birds by Hondecoeter, who painted almost exclusively similar subjects. The solitary feather in the foreground recalls his famous masterpiece at the Hague. On each side of this, tolerable portraits by Van der Helst. 36. Fruit and still life by Van Beyeren. 444. *One of Jan Steen’s most characteristic pieces of Batavian humour. A Dutch lover offering affection’s gift, in the shape of a herring and two leeks, to a lady no longer in her first youth. Behind, her unconscious husband. The painting of every detail is full of the best Dutch merits, and the tone of the whole frankly repulsive. =Right wall.= 221. Hobbema: *The Wood at Haarlem. Characteristic Dutch landscape. 202. Frans Hals: **Splendid portrait of Professor Hoornebeck of Leyden. Extremely vivacious and rapidly handled. 220. *One of Hobbema’s most famous mills. Above this, 19, Storm at Sea, by Backhuysen. 368. Excellent **portrait by Rembrandt. 216. Portrait by Van der Helst. Not in his best manner. 445. A very characteristic and excellent Jan Steen, known as *The Rhetoricians—that is to say, members of a Literary Club or Debating Society, one of whom is engaged in reading his prize verses to a not too appreciative audience outside. Even here, however, Jan cannot omit his favourite touch of coarse Dutch love-making, with a tavern-girl introduced out of pure perversity. 357. Paul Potter: *Pigs. Admirably piggy. =End wall.= 223. More of Hondecoeter’s unimpeachable *poultry. 48. Bol: *Portrait of a Mathematician and Anatomist. One of the painter’s masterpieces. 367. **Splendid portrait by Rembrandt (“L’Homme au grand chapeau”). An excellent and characteristic example of his art. The light and shade, the painting of the hair, and the masterly handling of the robe are all in the great painter’s noblest manner. 402. Capital *water scene by S. van Ruysdael: a ferry on the Meuse. 224. Hondecoeter. More poultry, this time dead, with realistic nails, and other little tricks to catch the great public. =Left wall= (R. of door). 88. Van der Capelle: Calm sea, with excellent fishing boats. Now, return through Corridors A. and D. to ROOM VII.