Dispezsal of Pictures Acquired Four Centuries Ago Amsterdam, Oct. 17.
Hollaxi is dismayed concerning he dispersal.of "the famous collec tion of pictures formed four centuries ago by Jan Six, the Burge: master of Amsteniaim and the patron of Rembrandt, whose portraits of the Six family. with others, composed the collection which has now been sold by auction as a result of the death last year of Professor Jan Six, the last owner of the collection.
The total realized by the auction was £185,000. The backbone of the collection, namely the Six family portraits, were not, put up for auc: tion owing to the inificence Sir Henri Deterding, the oil who made the necessary "provision to ensure keeping the portraits in Holland for fever. Two of the most valuable pictures sold at the auction will also remain in Holland, namely the "Dutch Interior" by Pieter de Hoogh, which was bought for £12 (000 by the Rembrandt Society for the Ryks Museum, and Gerard Ter-Dorch's "Woman seated at a table: it" bought by Sir Henri De-fording for the Hague Mauritshuis for £20,500, The majority of the pictures were sold to Dutch private collectors, but the American art-dealer, Mr. Knoedler, pai beautiful over as "The Hamlet in the Wood.
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