Woman and Child

Woman and ChildA fragment possibly, it has been thought, from a 'Massacre of the Innocents'. Catalogued as English until 1980 and then as Unknown.

The principal ship is the commodore of the British Levant Company fleet off an Eastern Mediterranean port

work on the picture began in September 1716

With no narrative to absorb her attention

ever alert to a finely-balanced moral

and possibly derives from

Ceres is offered a drink at a humble cottage and is mocked by a boy whom she will transform into a lizard (Ovid

The figures have been attributed to Adriaen van de Velde (q

but his early works more closely resemble those of his likely contemporary in Hals' workshop

A copy after Saenredam's original of 1633 at Glasgow

16/19 March 1993

but this is presumably a confusion with the painter

He was born in London of a Swiss father