"The Night School" might be described as the work of a pocket Rembrandt; "The Young Housekeeper" is the work of an artist of rare individuality and sympathy.

At the Wallace Collection may be seen a hermit by Dou quite in his best nocturnal manner.
Gerard Dou died at Leyden, where he had spent nearly all his quiet life, in 1676.

He is buried at St.Peter's, but his grave does not seem to be known there.
Dou had many imitators, some of whom studied under him.

One of the chief was Godfried Schalcken of Dort, whose picture of an "Old Woman Scouring a Pan" may be seen in the National Gallery, while the Wallace Collection has several examples of his skill.

Schalcken seems to have been a man of great brusquerie, if two stories told by Ireland of his sojourn in England are true.