2/2 The Oude Kerk in Delft, during a sermon, 1669. Again with that great play of light, which Emanuel de Witte is so good at. Today is his day.

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3/3 The man himself: Adriaen van de Venne. Born in Delft in 1599, we learn. Here, looking properly successful in 1649. And died OTD in 1662.

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Jan van Goyen(1596-1656)Dutch landscape painter. Prolific artist; approx 1200 paintings & more than 1000 drawings r known. Painted many of the canals in and around The Hague as well as the villages surrounding countryside of Delft, Rotterdam, Leiden, and Gouda.

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Cornelis Springer, 1817 – 1891, Dutch painter, The Gemeenlandshuis and the Old Church, Delft, Summer

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From to title page of A. van Leeuwenhoek, Send-brieven (Epistles, to the High-honored Gentlemen of the Royal Society in 1718 turned into a plaque in 1740, coll. . https://t.co/67WsUkuQ3y

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Vermeer is in the news due to the restoration of an overpainted Cupid on the wall, previously only seen in x-rays. My 2016 comic about the painting imagined the artist removing Cupid from the scene.

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Johannes Vermeer was a 17th century Dutch artist, probably self-taught. Little is known about him with certainty, as he was not known outside his home town of Delft until long after his death. It is known, however, that he lived in poverty for most of his life, not being 1/4

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11 Because of the cost of war and uncertain times, William was first laid to rest on a catafalque surrounded by rather dreary curtains in Delft's Nieuwe Kerk to the chagrin of his widow, Louise de Coligny.

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On this day in 1584 William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard. Spanish King Philip had offered a reward of 25,000 crowns, peerage, and an inheritable estate to anyone who killed William whom he named a pest on the whole of Christianity

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I still haven't came up with any good design so for now let's just whip some quick drawing of delft frame with waves and wolf in it, it's so tacky lol I'm sorry
Anyway delft tattoo kinda looks good on him since his skin is pale

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I need some help bridging us from here to when I start getting paid so I'm looking to sell a couple designs I've held onto for a bit!

TropicalSteppe Alpacattle (+1 extra art) - $30
Scpkid Delftware Dog (+2 extra art) - $45
Skymachine Goat-Otter (+1 extra art) - $30

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If you ever wondered what it was like to travel down a Dutch canal in a horse-drawn "trekschuit", this drawing gives you a pretty good idea, even though it dates about 100 years after Vermeer painted his View of Delft. Rather crowded!

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my baby boy Clay!
Clay is a potter and sculptor that runs is own shop! He loves it so much he got tattoos inspired by delftware. Clay is a very sweet man and always gives a warm greeting to anyone that comes in his shop.
He loves to make tiny sculpts of animals to give out to-

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Vintage Polychromatic Vase, Dutch, Delft, Ceramic, Ornament, Mid 20th.C, C.1960

https://t.co/eeMajQBhrc

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Utterly glorious c.18 Delft mural; inland vessels, coasters & frigate; Mercury, God of fcommerce, travellers, luck & Aeolus, keeper of winds. Dutch, painted by Adam Sijbel, prob. purchased by John Webbe Weston in 1784 & from Sutton Place, Surrey
https://t.co/5c8INla39H

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Flowers in a Delft Jug
Julian Alden Weir

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Also made some monochromatic foxes for the foxdex - featuring one of my favourite watercolour paints "delft blue" (or indanthrone blue in other brands). Such a great hue <3

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Woman in profile, 1654. Another really marvelous painting by Carel Fabritius, born OTD in 1622. You have to wonder what else was in his Delft studio when it blew up (literally) later that year!

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