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The portrait of Rembrandt's sister, the Flight Into Egypt, the small, laughing man, the negroes, and the study of an old woman, the latter wearing a white head-dress, are a mine of joy for the student. The sister's head is lent by Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot, the art expert. There are only thirty-odd Rembrandts in Holland out of the five hundred and fifty he painted.
The monogram on the picture was called that of Frans Hals, but as reproduced and explained by C. Hofstede de Groot in the "Jahrbuch für Königlich-preussischen Kunst-Sammlungen" for 1893, it seems evident that the signature is J. L. and not F. H.
A. J. Wauters finally declared it a Vermeer, though neither Bredius nor Hofstede de Groot are of his opinion. And now we hear the question: Who owns the thirty-fifth Vermeer, Vermeer of the magical blue and yellow? First let us ask: Who was Jan Vermeer, or Van der Meer?
More serious was the liberal revolt against the cut-and-dried orthodoxy of Dort. Slowly it made headway, and it found leaders in Hofstede de Groot, professor at Groningen, and in two eloquent preachers, De Cocq at Ulrum and Scholte at Deventer. Though deprived of their pulpits, fined and persecuted, the Separatists grew in number.
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