It is not Hogarth with whom I should associate Jan, but Burns.

He is the Dutch Burns--in colour.
I wish we had more facts concerning him, for he must have been a great man and humorist.

The story is told of Hogarth that on being commissioned to paint a scriptural picture of the Red Sea for a too parsimonious patron who had beaten him down and down, he rebuked him for his meanness by producing a canvas entirely covered with red paint.

"But what is this ?" the patron asked.

"The Red Sea--surely." "Where then are the Israelites ?" "They have all crossed over." "And Pharaoh's hosts ?" "They are all drowned." The story is perhaps an invention; but a somewhat similar joke is credited to Jan Steen.