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Duke has been so good as to send for the inspection of the Fellows. 
The size of the picture, which is in the finest preservation, is thirty- 
two inches by nineteen. It is executed in 
oil, and bears the following monogram and y II 
date. Mr. William Russell, with his usual g 
discernment, detected in this monogram the : 
signatures of Jean Goeimare and Jean David 6 
de Heem, and proved the correctness of his J ma 7 
judgment by a reference to Brulliot*. Jean 
Goeimare, who is not noticed by Descamps, Bryan, Sandrart, or 
Houbraken, is described by Brulliot as a Flemish artist who flourished 
at the commencement of the seventeenth century, and painted land- 
scapes with many animals, executed with great care, but in rather a 
dry manner+. Of De Heem, the celebrated painter of still life, it 
would be superfluous to say anything. We may conclude, then, that 
in this joint production the landscape and animals were painted by 
Goeimare, and the shells by De Heem. 
* Dict. des Monogrammes, | partie, pp. 274, 201. 
t+ I am indebted to Mr. Russell for this information. 
