The Dominican friar Savonarola was a preacher & a leader in the populist revolution in Florence during the 1490s. His political enemies secured his execution by burning on 23 May 1498, in the Piazza della Signoria. After this he was regarded by some followers as a martyr. This work seem to have been painted somewhat later, about 1500-40. The reverse of this panel depicts the execution of Savonarola & his two companions, Domenico da Pescia & Silvestro Maruffi. ...

The figure '17' in the inscription presumably refers to the sitter's age. The inscription also seems to indicate that he came from Auro in the province of Brescia. He is later recorded as a senior civil servant in Venice & held the posts of ' Scrivan delle Rason vecchie' in 1542 & he was also ' Scrivan of the Scuola della Trinità' in Venice. The pensive mood & assurance of pose are derived from Titian's portraits & perhaps from Giorgione. ...

Suitbertus Hendriksz. Purmerent (1587
- 1650), was born in The Hague & became a Roman Catholic priest in 1615. The identification
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Van Dyck's portrait of Cesare Alessandro Scaglia (1592
- 1641) is a stately & enduring image of a man who was familiar with the
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Van Dyck made a number of self-portraits, & this painting is thought to be a late 18th or early 19th-century copy after a self-portrait design of about 1620, of which the prime version is in Munich (Alte Pinakothek). ...

This is the only known portrait in which Gainsborough included himself with his family. With him are his wife, Margaret Burr, whom he married in July 1746, & their daughter. Gainsborough holds in his hand a paper, perhaps once showing a sketch, but now transparent with age, as is the figure of the child. It has been presumed that she must be the Gainsborough's eldest surviving daughter Mary, born shortly before February 1750. However, both the style of the background & the evident difficulties Gainsborough had with the proportions of the rather stiff-limbed figures suggest a date closer to 1747-8, when Gainsborough was still working in London. The child may, therefore, be the Gainsborough's first-born but short-lived daughter, also named Mary, who died in 1748. Her date of birth is so far untraced, but the child in the picture would seem to be around eighteen months old. ...

The artist made several portraits of Luise Steurwaldt, whom he married at Roehampton on 11 February 1872. This work is closely related to a larger painting (Frankfurt, Stadelsches Kunstinstitut) where the sitter wears the same costume but holds a European ...

Cunera Cornelisdr. van der Cock (1629/30
- 1700) married Frans van Mieris in 1657. She was the mother of Willem van Mieris whose
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The Comtesse Vilain XIIII (1780
- 1853) is shown with her five-year-old daughter, Louise. The portrait was painted in Brussels
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