The work is a three-quarter length portrait of Johanna Martens (1599—1639), the wife of Antonie van Hilten (1586—1670), Secretary of State of Utrecht (dignified by...
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The sitter is likely the 20-year-old Maria Trip. She hailed from an extremely wealthy family involved in the arms trade. Here, she displays her affluence in full...
Philips Lucaszoon was a senior official with the Dutch East India Company. He had returned to the Netherlands in 1633. Rembrandt (1606—1669) painted this portrait...
In the 1630s, Thomas de Keyser was the most fashionable portrait painter in Amsterdam, and his work was popular with the middle and upper classes of that city. As one of...
The regentesses Clara Abba, Elisabeth van Duynen, and Agatha Munter administered Amsterdam’s leper house, a charitable institution. Dutch painter Ferdinand Bol...
Rembrandt painted Oopjen Coppit (1611—1689), the wife of Maerten Soolmans (see the post from 8th December), when she was pregnant with her first child at the age of 23....
Still life painter Willem van Aelst (1627—1683) was one of the earliest Dutch artists to paint an asymmetrically arranged still life paintings of fine glassware, silver...
At the age of 25, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606—1669) moved from his hometown of Leiden to the bustling city of Amsterdam. Within a few years he had become one of the city’s...
Amalia van Solms (1602—1675) was a German noblewoman who became the Princess of Orange and consort of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, significantly shaping Dutch...
By 1624 Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy (1588—1650/1656) was one of the most remarkable and sought-after portraitists in Amsterdam, a stature he retained until the arrival of...
The portraits of Maerten Soolmans and his wife Oopjen Coppit (I’ll post separately), two masterpieces painted in 1634, when Rembrandt was just 28 years old, have been...
Catharina Hooft became famous at a very early age, when she was painted by the Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals (1582/3—1666). In this triumph of characterisation, the...
Marie de’ Medici, Queen of France, in a ceremonial gown of blue velvet with gold fleur-de-lis brooches, ermine garnishes and precious-stone appliqués over a blouse with...
Although there are no records telling us who this young woman is, we can learn quite a lot about her from her clothes and jewellery. We are looking, then, at a young,...
In 1662 the fabulously wealthy Trip family moved into the stateliest private residence in all of Amsterdam. Hanging above a mantelpiece in one of the private rooms was...
Frederic Leighton (1830—1896) was one of Victorian Britain’s most renowned painters. Born in Scarborough, Yorkshire he received academic training in various European...
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A nymph, naked except for a thin strip of seaweed draped across her lower body, opens a large oyster shell, where the little baby lies asleep. Herbert James Draper, A...
The Catalogue of the 1860 National Exhibition of Fine Arts describes this work in the following excerpt: ‘The goddess of Love can be seen standing on a shell held by a...
On 27 February 1640, a Flemish Baroque artist Anthony van Dyck (1599—1641) married Mary Ruthven, a lady of a Scottish origin, in England. He portrayed his wife with her...
The famous Haarlem based painter and engraver Hendrick Goltzius (1558—1617) has painted an informal portrait of his friend, the textile merchant Jan Govertsen van der...
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” — Allen Saunders. Pieter Faes, Still life of roses, tulips, carnations and other flowers in an urn on a...
In Raimundo de Madrazo’s (1841—1920) prolific production, most of which was executed in Paris, where he settled when very young, his paintings featuring his favourite...
“Love me when I deserve it the least, because that’s when I need it the most.” — Catullus (c. 84 – c. 54 BC). Jan Frans van Dael, A Vase of Flowers on the Ledge, c....
Kenwood house is known for its outstanding collection of art and elegant Neoclassical interiors, particularly ‘The Great Room’ restored by Robert Adam between 1767 and...
Dutch painter Cornelis van Spaendonck (1756—1840) trained under his brother Gerard in Paris and worked at the Sèvres porcelain works for over twenty years. A member of...
“The long black nights, when the moon hides her face, when the stars are afraid, are not so black. The silence that dwells in the forest is not so black. There is...
In this massive painting, celebrated British landscape artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775—1851) pursued a theme of longstanding interest to him: the sea. On the...
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning...
A museum experience like no other 🖼️💚 Dulwich Picture Gallery houses one of the world’s most important collections of European Old Master paintings of the 1600s and...
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