One of his rare religious paintings was actually modeled after an Abraham Koninck play and uses red theater curtains to frame the scene of a Philistine mob encircling and taunting a bound Samson.
One of his rare religious paintings was actually modeled after an Abraham Koninck play and uses red theater curtains to frame the scene of a Philistine mob encircling and taunting a bound Samson. He satired such professions as educators, showing a teacher sharpening a pencil oblivious to the chaotic behavior of his children in The Village School, and physicians, showing a crowd gather around a painful dental extraction in The Quack Doctor. Games of cards or skittles were also popular subjects for this student of Nicholas Knupfer, who painted himself as a lute player and drew from his day job as an innkeeper to paint such scenes as The Dancing Couple and Rhetoricians at a Window, as well as numerous works showing a family on Christmas Eve. FTP, name this Dutch Baroque genre painter, artist of The Feast of St. Nicholas.
One of his rare religious paintings was actually modeled after an Abraham Koninck play and uses red theater curtains to frame the scene of a Philistine mob encircling and taunting a bound Samson.
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