264 NOTES TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS. 



XIII. A Dutch Falconer of the Sixteenth Cen- 

 tury. From a Portrait by Franz de Vriendt, in the 

 Brunswick Gallery. 



The original picture by Franz de Vriendt, commonly called 

 Franz Floris, a painter of Antwerp (1520-1570), is one of the 

 finest examples of that artist's work. Who the falconer was 

 cannot now be ascertained ; but there can be little doubt that 

 it is a portrait, and a good one, of some enthusiast of the day. 



The Dutch falconers have long been celebrated for their skill, 

 from the time when the Spanish prince, Don Juan Manuel, 

 sounded their praises in 1325 (see No. 226), down to the present 

 day, when their descendants in North Brabant still occupy 

 themselves every autumn in taking "passage hawks" on the 

 great heath of Valkenswaard (see Nos. 194, 198, and 79). An 

 account of some of the more celebrated Dutch falconers of 

 modern times, particularly those who were intimately associated 

 with the practice of the sport in England, has been furnished by 

 Professor Newton in his Appendix to Lubbock's "Fauna of 

 Norfolk " (No. 65) ; and Monsieur P. A. Pichot, in his lately 

 published Essay on the Falconry Court at the Paris Exhibition 

 of 1889 (No. 221), has given a portrait of the celebrated Adrian 

 Mollen, who was for many years falconer to the Loo Club, and 

 who happily still lives to impart the secrets of his art to pupils 

 of all nations (see No. 79, pp. in, 112). He was a pupil of 

 Jan Bots, with whom he was assistant falconer from 1833 to 

 1836. In 1837 he entered the service of Prince Trautmansdorf 

 at Oberwaldersdorf, some leagues from Vienna. Here he 

 remained until 1840, and during that time was engaged in train- 

 ing the " passage hawks " brought from Holland, and nestling 

 lanners from Hungary for flying at partridges, rooks, and stone 

 curlews. In 1841 he became falconer to the Loo Hawking 

 Club, his place at Prince Trautmansdorf's being taken by a 

 nephew of Jan Pells from Valkenswaard. 



XIV. Prince William V. of Orange, Heron- 

 hawking at the Loo in 1767. From a rare engraving 

 by Mourik. 



Long before the formation of the Loo Hawking Club in 

 1839, the Royal domain of the Loo, near Apeldoorn, in 



