Bartholomeus van der Heist (1612-1670), a native of Haarlem, who
painted under the early Dutch master, Nicholas Elias, surnamed
Pickenoy, and subsequently worked at Amsterdam, has fully signed his
_Shooting Prize_ (No. 2394, Plate XXXI.), which is dated 1653. It has
been regarded as a replica on a very reduced scale of _The Officers
of the Brotherhood of St. Sebastian at Amsterdam_, in the Amsterdam
Gallery, which, curiously enough, bears the date 1657, and is also
signed on a slate.
Pieter van der Faes, who is better known as Sir Peter Lely
(1618-1680), after painting at Haarlem in the school of Pieter de
Grebber, went to England in 1641. He there succeeded Van Dyck as Court
painter, and at the Restoration became the favourite Royal painter. The
affectation and mannerism of his _Windsor Beauties_, now at Hampton
Court, is well known. He had a certain facility in painting
“The sleepy eye that spoke the melting soul.”