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The Pater Familias, study for a print; an interior with the father carefully feeding his baby, watched by his wife who holds some laundry in front of the fire-place
Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1648.
A side of 17thC masculinity you don't often see depicted.
(British Museum)
9 Sept 1569: d. Pieter Breughel the elder #painter & #printermaker #otd in #Brussels
9 Sept 1674: d. Murrough O'Brien 1st Earl of Inchiquin #otd (Manchester Gallery of Art/ British Museum)
8 Sept 1637: d. Robert Fludd, physician, cabbalist & writer on the occult #otd (BM)
3 Sept 1658: 3pm, Whitehall, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of #England,#Scotland & #Ireland dies #otd (BM)
Jan Davidsz de Heem, Still Life with Books and a Violin, 1628.
(Mauritshuis, The Hague)
Literate viewers knew the titles of the books on this table were concerned with the idea of fate.
31 Aug 1581: 1st (of four) debates between St. Edmund Campion & #Protestant divines in the Tower of #London #otd