Exhibition of Pictures by Dutch Masters of Seventeenth Century

The Burlington Fine Arts Club, a private gentlemen’s society at 17 Savile Row known for its scholarly loan exhibitions, mounted this survey of seventeenth-century Dutch painting in 1900. Three works then attributed to Vermeer were included, each lent by a different private collector.

A Lady Seated at a Virginal (catalogue no. 15, described as “A Lady Playing the Clavichord”) was lent by George Salting, who would bequeath it to the National Gallery, London in 1910. Officer and Laughing Girl (no. 18, listed under the French title “Le Soldat et la Fillette Qui Rit”) was lent by Mrs. Samuel Joseph, from whose collection it passed to Henry Clay Frick in 1911. Girl Interrupted in her Music (no. 23, described as “The Music Lesson”) was lent by Lewis Fry, M.P., who sold it to Frick the following year, 1901.