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on tile with our all time favourite and a similar image by Pieter Jansz. Quast, 1639,

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2022-04-24

Drawing after Dirck Barentsz coming up for auction. A meare 150 euros estimate. The original is in the Rijksmuseum. Dirck obviously had problems with the foreshortening of Christ's head which he messed up totally. Interesting that the copyist copied the mess.

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2022-04-19

Owl dressed as a pilgrim with hat and drinking bottle c. 1500-49 (Rijksmuseum)

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2022-04-08

There's something quite lovely about the nun painted here by Gesina Ter Borch in 1657 (Rijksmuseum)

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2022-04-03

This wonderful 1652/53 depiction of washerwomen, also giving the text of their song is by the brilliant Gesina Ter Borch, 1633-1690

(Rijksmuseum)

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2022-03-30

Willem I Frederik, Allegorical Representation of the Birth of William Frederick, Prince of Orange-Nassau, later King William I, 1772 https://t.co/Sl2MR4JZfj

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2022-03-25

David George van Lennep (1712-97), Senior Merchant of the Dutch Factory at Smyrna, and his Wife and Children https://t.co/eutGKEdAwy

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2022-03-25

"Too much Rembrandt to be by Rembrandt". Snort. When still Rembrandt it was the best selling postcard in the Rijksmuseum shop. Now banned. On view in the "Candlelight" exhibition in Gouda. (tantalising details)

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2022-03-24

Rare image of an Dutch attic by Harmen ter Borch, ca. 1651, Spot all those items which were described so many times in the notarial deeds: old pots, boxes and a chest. https://t.co/u0IS2goS8B https://t.co/ARRjwHFoKp

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2022-03-22