//=time() ?>
Study of St Jerome - Dürer - finally solves the mystery of how you store your cardinal’s hat or galero (BM)
22 Jan 1689: Sir Robert Howard MP, playwright & politician contends in the House of Commons #otd that James II had, in effect, 'abdicated the government' (Christie's)
Sijbrant Schellinger & Jenneken ter Borch with their two children tenderly and deliberately done by Gesina ter Borch in 1669 (Rijksmuseum) What detail - the infant's bird-themed high chair, Jenneken's fashionable attire, Sijbrant's watch with its winder and his writing equipment.
A couple - and their #dog - stroll by moonlight, painted by Gesina ter Borch c. 1654-59 (Rijksmuseum)
"Portrait of a girl, said to be Anne of Austria", 16 May 1615.
She would have been 15 at this point if this is her.
Daniel Dumonstier
(British Museum)
19 Jan: feast #otd of the allegedly #English-born Henry of Finland who entered that kingdom together with King Saint Eric of Sweden and died as a martyr there in 1156. In these images he tramples on his killer, Lalli
The Wedding at Cana
c. 1686
by Giuseppe Maria Crespi
(Met Museum)
Looks a bit like it turned into a wine-tasting.
White lily (Lilium candidum), Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
(Rijksmuseum)