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'The Honourable entertainment given to the Queenes Majestie in progresse at Eluetham in Hampshire'. London, 1591
(Royal Collection Trust, HM EII)
7 June, feast of St Willibald of #Wessex who died c.787 as bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria after many travels (Rensi/BM)
Man in a Tall Hat,
Philippe de Champaigne, 1602-1674
(Musée du Louvre)
Dandelion [Taraxacum officinale] with a caterpillar, Book of Flower Studies
c. 1510–1515
Master of Claude de France
(Met Museum)
María Teresa, 1638–1683, Infanta of Spain
c. 1645, so aged about seven years
by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, son-in-law & successor as court painter to Velazquez who was born #otd 6 June 1599
(Met Museum)
6 June 1134: d. St Norbert, founder of the Premonstratensians & an advocate of clerical celibacy #otd (BM)
Some dogs by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
(Rijksmuseum)
The well-stocked kitchen, Joachim Bueckelaer, 1566 (Rijksmuseum)
The main event of the painting is not the lavish display of vegetables, fruit, meat, poultry and dishes but the visit of Jesus to Mary and Martha, discreetly depicted in the background.