Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - German "The Flight into Egypt" by Adam Elzheimer (1574-1620)

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Holland - Belgium "Frans Hals and his second Wife, Lysbeth Reyniers" by Frans Hals (1580 - 1666) painted c. 1617, the year in which Pocahontas died. Hals was born at Antwerp in Flanders the year Francis Drake retur

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Belgium "Portrait of the Syndic Meerstraten" by Sir Anthony van Dyck (also sp. Vandyke) (1599-1641) The painter was born in the same year Shakespeare wrote "Julius Caesar" and VelOzquez and Oliver Cromwell were b

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Holland "After the Carouse" by Jan Steen (1626-1679) Steen was a student of Adriaen van Ostade. He was the son of a brewer and himself worked as both a brewer and tavern-keeper. His work, especially in this exampl

Paintings & engravings - Engraving - Germany - Belgium "Portrait of Martin van Newenhoven as Donator" by Hans Memling (1430-1494) The painter was born in what is now Germany and was a leading Flemish painter of the Bruges school during the Renaissanc

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Holland "Frans Banning Cock`s Company marching out"(the Nightwatch) by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) The artist was born in the year English playwright Ben Jonson wrote "Volpone" and Galileo invented the proport

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Holland Painting in the Netherlands in the 17th. Century. "Anatomical Lecture by Doctor Tulp" by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) The artist was born in the year English playwright Ben Jonson wrote "Volpone" and Ga

Paintings & Engravings- Engraving - Holland Painting in the Netherlands in the 17th. Century. "Self-Portrait" by Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) Metsu began his career as painter of religious scenes but changed to depictions of commercial life in the marke

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Holland "The Water Mill" by Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709) The painter was an important and influential landscape artist (after his death in poverty) of the Dutch Baroque school. He had little success in his lifetime

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Holland "Cattle at the Pond" by Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691) The artist was born in the year the Pilgrim Fathers left Plymouth, England, for America. He died in the year that Massachusetts absorbed Plymouth colony and

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Poland - Germany "Supper at the house of the Rev. Mr. Bouquet" from the sketchbook of Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801) The artist was self-taught, although greatly influenced by Jean Baptiste Greuze. He produced more

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - France "Landscape" by Nicholas Poussin (1594-1665) The artist, although French, spent almost his entire career in Rome. The son of impoverished farmers, he displayed no interest in painting until an artist came to

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Italy