Tag Archive for: dutch paintings

Hidden delights: small animals in 17th C Dutch paintings
Elias van den broek, detail of Still Life with Roses (1670 - 1708)
Rijksmuseum (click to zoom right in on the museum's website)
The 17th century saw a keen interest in science and naturalism and empirical research of the natural…

Old Masters: painting tricks
Rembrandt van Rijn
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly Maria Trip (1639)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam I often paint dark backgrounds. Learning about old techniques, I aspire to approximate those incredible backgrounds of 17th…

Strange things in old Dutch paintings
Osias Beert. Still life of porcelain vessels containing sweets, pewter plates bearing sweets and chestnuts, three pieces of glassware and a bread roll on a table draped with a mauve cloth. 1600-1619, private collection.
In…

Old pigments painting blog: Madder Lake
My paint box: Madder Lake
My paint box is one of my favourite things: I’ve managed to exclude any paint developed after 1700, so no cadmiums or synthetic ultramarine for me. I guess that makes me a purist – it’s interesting how you…

Old pigments painting blog: Vandyke Brown
Rembrandt van Rijn, Saskia van Uylenburgh As Flora, 1641
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden - Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
inv./cat. no. 1562; Image credit: The Rembrandt Database. Old pigments…