The greatest of all Dutch landscape painters, with the possible exception of Jan van Goyen, is Jacob van Ruisdael (1628?-1682), who occupied himself more especially with rushing waterfalls and undulating country. His _Storm on the Coast_ (No. 2558) is a fine achievement, but his best picture in this collection is the _Landscape_ (no No.), which was bequeathed by Baron Arthur de Rothschild. His _Woody Landscape_ (No. 2559), the _Road_ (No. 2559A), _Landscape_ (No. 2561), and the _Entrance to a Wood_ (No. 2561A), cannot, however, compare with his _Sunny Landscape_ (No. 2560), which bears the artist’s monogram. HOBBEMA The talents of Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709) were so disregarded by his countrymen that in disgust he, at the age of thirty, took a humble post in the Customs. His woody scenes seen in the pale sunlight of the early afternoon are not copied from any chance scenery, but composed; and his _Water Mill_ (No. 2404), fine though it is, contains passages that will be met with elsewhere. The _Farm_ (No. 2404A) is a very good picture, as also is the _Landscape_ (No. 2403) from the Nieuwenhuys collection. A very large number of painters, including Wyntrack, who gives us a _Farm_ (No. 2639), painted the figures into the foregrounds of Hobbema’s best works. PHILIPS WOUWERMAN In a large number of Philips Wouwerman’s pictures the landscapes are of secondary importance to the figures; and although the execution is careful and conscientious, the frequenter of picture galleries is apt to tire of his make-believe genre-pieces, landscapes with horses, riders, sportsmen, soldiers, robbers, gipsies, and the like. The Louvre presents an imposing array of fifteen of the twelve hundred or more pictures by Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668), and his brother and pupil Pieter is credited with a poor but historically interesting _View of the Porte de Nesles, Paris_, in 1664 (No. 2635).