The Dutch School [antikvár]

FOREWORD The present catalogue includes all the Dutch pictures in the National Gallery painted after 1599; pictures painted before 1600 in the Northern Netherlands are dealt with in the catalogue of the Early Netherlandish School. A list of the paintings here catalogued is to be found at the end of this volume. The two volumes of plates that illustrate this catalogue were published in 1958. They contain reproductions of all the pictures now catalogued except for four that entered the National Gallery after the printing of the plates had begun: J. Bosboom No. 2712; P. Lastman No. 6272; Rembrandt No. 6274; K. du Jardin No. 6296. At the end of the second volume are reproductions of many of the signatures on the pictures. Many acknowledgments of help received in specific instances are made in the text of the catalogue but I should like to record here somé special debts of gratitude. It would be impossible to express adequate thanks to Dr. Horst Gerson and his colleagues at the Rijksbureau voor Kunst-historische Documentatie, whose generosity in providing information on innumerable points has been boundless. I am alsó particularly grate-ful to Dr. Arthur van Schendel for many illuminating discussions, and to Dr. Sturla Gudlaugsson for much information about costume. I am under a special obligation to Mr. Michael Robinson for extensive help with the descriptions of marine paintings. I am greatly indebted to Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods for allowing me frequent access to their sales records, and to Mejuffrouw Catherina van Haaften and Mr. Frank Simpson for answering many queries about sale catalogues. The entries for the dozen or more XlX-century pictures transferred to the National Gallery from the Tate Gallery in 1956 are based to a considerable extent on notes made by Mr. Ronald Alley and I am very thankful to him for allowing me to use his material. I alsó wish to thank M. Jean Adhémar, Dr. J. C. Ebbinge Wubben, Mr. J. W. Goodison, Mr. j0rn Rubow, Dr. A. B. de Vries and Mr. Christopher White for many kind services. Lastly, many of my colleagues, especially in the Scientific and Conservation Departments, have provided valuable help, and I have received unfailing assistance from the National Gallery photographers. NEIL MACLAREN This volume is one of a series produced under the editorship of the Keeper to replace the catalogue of 1929.