For battle scenes:  Wouvermans and Huchtenburg.

For marine pieces:  Vandevelde and Bakhuizen.

For still life and flowers:  Kalf, A. van Utrecht, Van Huysum, and De
Heem.

DUTCH HOUSEWIFERY.  In his papers upon Old New York (1846), John Fanning Watson pays a just tribute to Knickerbocker housekeepers.

“The cleanliness of Dutch housewifery was always extreme.  Everything had to submit to scrubbing and scouring; dirt in no form could be endured by them, and dear as water was in the city, where it was generally sold, still it was in perpetual requisition.  It was their honest pride to see a well-furnished dresser, showing copper and pewter in shining splendor as if for ornament rather than for use.  In all this they differed widely from the Germans, a people with whom they have been erroneously and often confounded.  Roost fowls and ducks are not more different.  As water draws one it repels the other.”

DUTTON (Mrs. Dolly), dairy-maid to the Duke of Argyll.—­Sir W. Scott, Heart of Midlothian (time George II.).

DWARF.  The following are celebrated dwarfs of real life:—­

ANDROMEDA, 2 feet 4 inches.  One of Julia’s free maids.

ARISTRATOS, the poet.  “So small,” says Athenaeos, “that no one could see him.”

BEBE (2 syl), 2 feet 9 inches.  The dwarf of Stanislas, king of Poland (died 1764).  BORUWLASKI (Count Joseph), 2 feet 4 inches.  Died aged 98 (1739-1837).  He had a brother and a sister both dwarfs.

BUCHINGER (Matthew), who had no arms or legs, but fins from the shoulders.  He could draw, write, thread needles, and play the hautboy.  Fac-similes of his writing are preserved among the Harleian MSS. (born 1674-_).

CHUNG, recently exhibited with Chang the giant.

COLO’BRI (Prince), of Sleswig, 25 inches; weight, 25 lbs. (1851).

CONOPAS, 2 feet 4 inches.  One of the dwarfs of Julia, niece of
Augustus.

COPPERNIN, the dwarf of the princess of Wales, mother of George III. 
The last court-dwarf in England.

CRACHAMI (Caroline), a Sicilian, born at Palermo, 20 inches.  Her skeleton is preserved in Hunter’s Museum (1814-1824).

DECKER or DUCKER (John), 2 feet 6 inches.  An Englishman (1610).

FARREL (Owen), 3 feet 9 inches.  Born at Cavan.  He was of enormous strength (died 1742).

FERRY (Nicholas), usually called Bebe, contemporary with Boruwlaski.  He was a native of France.  Height at death, 2 feet 9 inches (died 1737).

GIBSON (Richard) and his wife Anne Shepherd.  Neither of them 4 feet.  Gibson was a noted portrait painter, and a page of the back-stairs in the court of Charles I. The king honored the wedding with his presence; and they had nine children (1615-1690).

  Design or chance makes others wive,
  But Nature did this match contrive.