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@17thCenturyLady @Gamer_1745 @cheapsellotape @LiamPeterTemple @MargaretPorter @MuseumCromwell @ElizStJohn Portrait of a child with pet dog
By
Peter van Lint, 1609-1690
(Collection KMSKA/artinflanders.be/Photographer
Hugo Maertens)
Old Man at the Window
by Samuel van Hoogstraten, 1653
(Kunsthistorsiches Museum Wien)
11 Jan 1632: Katherine Fowler, later Phillips, #poet #translator, baptised at St Mary Woolchurch #London #otd (BM) 'Matchless Orinda'.
Her ‘Pompée’ was premiered in Smock Alley #Dublin on 10 Feb 1663
@smockalley
@OldDublinTown
Richard Sackville, third Earl of Dorset, watercolour on vellum, painted by Isaac Oliver, 1616
(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
Four women, whose identity is now unknown, painted by Nicholas Hilliard from the 1570s to 1602.
(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
Hilliard died #otd 7 Jan 1619.
So this 17th century image is labelled 'autumn' from a series on the four seasons.
But today I am seeing a man offering a woman a glass of wine while he collects the plates to do the washing-up on Nollaig na mBan or Women's Christmas - 6 Jan.
#NollaigNamBan
(Rijksmuseum)
Oliver Cromwell as a tightrope walker on a rope held up by Fairfax and a courtier. Two monkeys sway in the background. On the right the young prince William III standing between a Dutchman with a peace branch and Pallas, on the right the Dutch Lion, 1652 (Rijksmuseum)