He innovated with full-length portraits, then from those developed domestic genre scenes which influenced Vermeer. He was born 400 years ago this month.
Golden Age
Many coasts are flat – a challenge to painters from the Netherlands and Belgium in particular. Here masters from the Golden Age, the Hague School, and others take on this challenge.
One of the finest still-life painters of any age, some of her work celebrated the sensual pleasures of food, others the futility of life.
Some of the finest landscapes from the Golden Age, and a mystery which was long assumed to be a self-portrait. An influence on Boudin, hence Monet.
His meticulous paintings of farm animals transformed landscape practice, and created a new sub-genre.
Had he been French or British, he would probably have been rated as one of the greatest painters of the 1800s.
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