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2/2 Coming straight at you from 1652: Holy Family on the ferry. I'm sure there was a logic to this one from Jacob Jordaens.
Elegant party in the garden, 1619. Hopefully they are all celebrating Esaias van de Velde's birthday. Which is today.
3/3 Getting rid of that pesky bishop. Never liked him much! Too Catholic. Now gone.
Traumatic memories for an artistic culture: the Netherlandish iconoclasm of 1566, painted over half a century later by Dirck van Delen. His day is today.
2/2 Saint Francis receives stigmata in a clearing among some brutal rocks: they were a specialty of Domenico Veneziano, who died (alas!) on this day in 1461.
Charles Crokatt, William Keable playing the flute, and Peter Darnell Muilma, all looking extremely proper in a landscape. Lovely friendship portrait, an early work by Thomas Gainsborough. It's his birthday.
2/2 The artist's daughters in 1756, with little Margaret much distracted by a butterfly. Older Mary is curious but has more self-control! By Thomas Gainsborough, born OTD in 1727.
2/2 Customer has arrived at the frame-makers’ workshop with annoyingly particular demands. Drawn in 1646 by Salomon de Bray. @TheFrameBlogMag
Frame-maker’s workshop, drawn by Salomon de Bray of Haarlem, whose day is today.