Isotta Brembati Grumelli (c. 1530—1586) was an Italian poet and countess. She was fluent in Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, and Italian. Giovanni Battista Moroni, Isotta...
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Painted only two years before the great Irish artist’s death, The Lady in White, Viscountess Wimborne is a bravura example of Sir John Lavery’s (1856—1941) work as a...
The painter Louis Tocqué (1696—1772) was accepted into the French Académie Royale in 1734. His work was highly sought after at that time. He was much admired for his...
Fredericka, was a German noblewoman and member of the House of Wettin. Her fashionable brocaded silk gown, woven with a silver thread ground and large scale patterns,...
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...
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....
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...
“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life,...
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...
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,...
The identity of this pregnant woman is not known, but her elaborate clothing suggests she was wealthy and upper class. The pearls on her outfit are symbols of ‘purity’....
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...
François Hubert Drouais (1727—1775) was a leading 18th century rococo portrait painter during the latter years of Louis XV’s reign. He became a member of the Académie...
Belgian painter Alfred Stevens (1823—1906) was active mainly in Paris, where he settled in 1852. From about 1860 he achieved immense success with his pictures of young...
Rogelio de Egusquiza y Barrena (1845—1915) was a Spanish genre and portrait painter, also known for his friendship with the German composer Richard Wagner. Rogelio de...
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