Jacob Huysmans (Attributed), Portrait Of A Lady With Pearls

Jacob Huysmans (Attributed), Portrait Of A Lady With PearlsThis splendid mid 17th century half length portrait attributed to Flemish artist, Jacob Huysmans (c. 1630 1696) depicts a lady wearing a brown and ivory dress decorated with pearls, together with a pearl necklace and earrings. Its presented in a decorative cartouche. Deliberately nonchalant and somewhat seductive, she rests her right arm upon her cheek, which draws attention to her alluring eyes. Her hair, a work of art in itself, is ornately worn in

Set against a turquoise wall

and lawyer who is regarded as one of the forerunners of realism in animal painting

born 1832/9

Cecchini’s training in Brussels under the Belgian landscape painter Jean-Baptiste Kindermans is evident in the work’s tonal cohesion and compositional restraint

Traies sent a few examples to the Royal Academy in London and debuted in 1817

The skull in the lower right is an interesting

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His final exhibition piece

It’s a piece that conveys the charm and relaxed atmosphere of a warm Summer’s day on the continent

This early 18th-century still life painting attributed to Franz Werner von Tamm (1658-1724) depicts two pigeons and two guinea pigs among foliage in a forest setting

One senses a man shaped by civic life - guild meetings

John Inigo Richards studied at the St Martin's Lane Academy under George Lambert