or Dow, (Gerard), of Leyden, an excellent painter in the 17th century, was the disciple of Rembrandt; but his manner of working was very different from that of his master. He painted little figures in oil, which he finished as highly as if they had been as big as the life. He always drew after nature, and viewed his originals in a convex mirror; and, as he took a great deal of pains, his works seem almost as perfect as nature herself, without losing anything of the freshness, union, or force of colouring, or of the chiaroscuro. The common height of his pictures did not exceed a foot; yet his price was sometimes five hundred, sometimes eight hundred, and sometimes a thousand livres each picture, according to the time he spent about it; though he only reckoned after the rate of a livre an hour.