_Adrian van de Velde_ (Dutch: 1636-1672). _See 867._
"The figures and faces," says Mrs. Jameson in her catalogue of the Peel
Collection, "are finished with inexpressible delicacy; the animals
are painted with characteristic truth; the foliage of the trees seems
stirred by the breeze;--in short, it is a most rare piece of work in
every part, and full of pastoral sentiment, though there is certainly
nothing Arcadian in the personages introduced." Sir Robert Peel bought
the picture in 1840 for 760 gs.