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Title: De luxe catalogue of notable paintings by Masters of the Early English, Dutch, Flemish and French schools : consigned by T.J. Blakeslee, to be sold at unrestricted public sale at Mendelssohn Hall on ... (April 9th and 10th, 1908) ..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Blakeslee, Theron J., d. 1914 American Art Association
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ttle fellow, with a cloak thrownover his suit of blue velvet and his neck encircled by a ruff.On the right stands the elder of the two girls, clad in a blackdress over a pink petticoat. A lace collar covers her shoulders,and in her hands is an elaborate head-dress set with jewels. Be-tween them is a baby, less elaborately dressed, her hair con-fined by a lace cap. Height, 36 mches; length, 42 inches. No. 122 ASCRIBED TO POURBUS HENRY VIII WHEN PRINCE OF WALES Bluff King Hal is here shown to us as a smaU boy ofseven years of age. He wears a long garment of black, elabo-rately embroidered, with a stiff skirt, beneath which can beseen a glimpse of an orange petticoat. Round his neck is a stifflinen collar with lace edging. His close-cropped head is bare,and in his right hand he carries a felt hat with a very highcrown. Height, 4i% inches; width, 29 inches. Inscribed in upper left, Peince Heney etates 7—afterwaedsHeney 8th. From the collection of the Duke of Fife, Duff Home, Banffshire.
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No. 123GEOBGE H. BOGEBT Contemporary EVENTIDE A SIMPLE landscape, with a stream wandering through themeadows. In the foregromid on either side of the composi-tion are clumps of slender trees showing between them a vistaover the landscape which reaches to the horizon, where a lineof low hills catches the last rays of the setting sun. The even-ing sky is full of atmosphere, and the whole picture is remark-able for its poetic sentiment. Height, 80 mches; length, 40 inches. No. 124 aOVAEBT FLIKK 1615—1660 GROUP OF FIGURES (Fbagment) In this fragment we see a number of men crowded betweenthe columns of some building, and climbing upon the plinthof one of the pillars, aU gazing and pointing at some objecthigh up on the right, but out of the picture. In the foregrounda taU black-bearded man in a long green cloak and white capstands in full sunhght, with a small boy by his side. Height, 48 inches; width, 40 inches. Flink was perhaps the most famous pupil of Rembrandt, and in hisbest manner

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