the west division of Queen's-county in Ireland.

(Bale bishop of). See BALE.

OSTADE (Adrian Van), an eminent Dutch painter born at Lubec in 1610. He was a disciple of Francis Hals, in whose school Brouwer was contemporary with him, where they contracted an intimate friendship. The subjects of his pencil were always of a low kind, he having nearly the same ideas as Teniers; diverting himself with clowns and drunkards in stables, alehouses, and kitchens. His pictures are so transparent and highly finished, that they have the polish and lustre of enamel: they have frequently a force superior to Teniers; yet it were to be wished that he had not designed his figures so short. He is perhaps one of the Dutch masters who best understood the chiaro obscuro; and he was often employed to paint figures for the best landscape painters of his countrymen. He died in 1685. OST

Offuna 1685. His works, especially those of his best time and manner, are very scarce; so that when they are to be purchased, no price is thought too much for them. His prints etched by himself, large and small, consist of 54 pieces.