John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Carel Fabritius, The Goldfinch, 1654
(Mauritshuis, The Hague)

The artist was baptised #otd 27 Feb 1622 in Middenbeemster.

Killed aged 32 in an explosion in Delft 12 Oct 1654.

The secret lives of 17th century #owls (BM)

Reading by candle light in 1625, and out on a skate date in 1644.

Four Pinks - with buds and foliage.
Herman Saftleven, 1682.

(British Museum)

Someone who really didn't like Charles I here.
Print made by Pierre Lombart, 1655
After Anthony van Dyck's 1633 portrait

(Print: British Museum, original painting 'Charles I with M. de St Antoine' Royal Collection Trust)

Shrove Tuesday or the Fool's Kitchen. One woman makes waffles, several others play instruments - to the right a fool being shaved by a nun

After Hieronymus Bosch, 1567

Bosch died 9 Aug 1516.

(British Museum)

18 Feb 1455: d. Bl. Fra Angelico #Dominican #painter #otd - who was declared patron of Catholic artists in 1984.

Mother and child at a toy stall.

A scene familiar to pretty much everybody.

(From Jacob Cats' "Spiegel vanden Ouden ende Nieuwe Tijd", first edition published in The Hague: 1632. British Museum)

15 Feb 1628: After a clash with #Spanish vessels Kenelm Digby lands at #Algiers #otd There he buys the freedom of 40-50 #English men in order to recrew his ships (NPG/British Museum)

30 Jan 1649: Charles I, King of #England, #Scotland & #Ireland executed at the Banqueting House, #London #otd

Portrait of Paolo Morigia, c. 1592-95.

By Fede Galizia, c. 1578– c. 1630
(Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, #Milan)

She's made a feature of his spectacles, reflecting the room they are sitting in. Morigia, for his part, is writing a poem about the picture she's painting.