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Born in 1630: (1630-1714), Electress of Hanover as spouse of granddaughter of King of England

Portrait by Workshop of (1618-80), ca. 1650s

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2020-10-14

For two 1650s dogs, each as modish as their master from the inimitable Gesina Ter Borch (Rijksmuseum)

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2020-08-26

1662: James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond arrived to take up role Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Previously held post various times since 1643 but 1650s lived in exile with Charles II. Upon restoration Charles to throne 1660, became major figure! https://t.co/nR663QrGGJ

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2020-07-27

1688: Death at of Lt-Gen James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond. Lord Lieutenant Ireland. 1649-50 leading commander Royalist forces V Cromwellian conquest. 1650s in exile with Charles II. Restoration; major figure! Buried . https://t.co/HjwUFMTSR1

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2020-07-21

Zomerschoon tulip (1620) - painted ~1650s by the amazing Balthasar vd Ast. After 5y of trying to get my hands on this variety I've now managed to get hold of 5 bulbs. People traded fine canal houses for these, and it all came crashing down in 1637. I'll be celebrating all day.

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2020-06-23

Today explores seascapes. There are some wonderful examples in our collection: Willem van de Velde's A 'Smalschip' with Sail Set at Anchor Close to the Shore, 1650s; Francis Danby's Sunset at Sea after a Storm, 1824; and Gustave Courbet's Eternity, c.1865-69

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2020-05-07

Juriaen van Streeck: Still Life With Peaches and a Lemon
(c. 1650s). Reworked with African print, my heirloom patchwork quilt and Bajan chopped seasoning. Rediscovering through challenge.

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2020-04-12

Four views of - St. Patrick's Purgatory at Lough Derg, 1654 (Hollar, BM); A satire on Purgatory (1650s Hollar, Met Museum); Machuca, 'The BVM and the souls in Purgatory', 1517 (Prado); Carracci , 'An angel frees souls from Purgatory' c. 1610 (Vatican)

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2020-03-17

2/2 Joy and hilarity of public medical treatment in the 1650s, courtesy of great Dutch humorist Jan Steen. Today is his day.

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2020-02-03

Just hung 'The Stag Hunt' (1650s) by Joan Carlile for Bright Souls . She's on the left with her husband, Lodowick, and children Penelope and James. It's the earliest self-portrait in oil by a female British artist.

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2019-06-21

Join us at 1pm today for a gallery talk on "Man’s Relationship with the Land" - exploring Rubens, Ruisdael, Claude and Rosa.

[image: Jacob van Ruisdael, Rocky Landscape, 1650s]

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2019-01-31

Pieter Boel; Abraham Diepenbeek
Design painting for a tapestry: Lion Hunt
Netherlands/Flanders (probably 1650s)
Goache on Paper, pasted onto canvas; 292x324 cm.
Hermitage Museum

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2018-12-12

3/3 Trend! The three Van Beveren boys pausing from hunt, strangely clad in pseudo-Polish garb (really!), and their page too. Dogs are normal. All painted in the 1650s by Aelbert Cuyp, whose day is today.

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2018-10-20



Beauty in


Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael (c. 1629 – 10 March 1682) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher.

Rough Sea at a Jetty, 1650s

Kimbell Art Museum→
https://t.co/kMO5eN1b9Y

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2018-04-06

1650s and medical care is a fun spectacle on your village street. A little Golden Age humor from Jan Steen.

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2017-02-04

'The Large Dort' is a mature work by Aelbert Cuyp, probably of the late 1650s: https://t.co/JPDKzaOz04

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2016-06-20