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Description: | Domenicus van Tol belonged to the Leiden school of fijnschilders, a group of seventeenth-century artists reputed for their small and finely detailed 'cabinet' paintings. Van Tol was a pupil of his uncle Gerrit Dou who was the master of the genre. The old woman in this work appears in several of Dou's paintings. Dressed in the same clothes and peering through her pince-nez, she is featured watering flowers and, in similar compositions to this, winding thread and reading a book. The brushwork in the Cheltenham painting lacks the refinement of Dou's technique, however, and is more consistent with Van Tol. | Subjects: | figure; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Tol, Domenicus van (Dutch painter, ca.1635-1676) Æ Attributed to After Dou, Gerrit (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1613-1675) Previously attributed to Brekelenkam, Quiringh van (Dutch painter, after 1622-1669 or after) Previously attributed to Brouwer, Adriaen (Flemish painter, born 1605 or 1606, died 1638) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8844... | Go to resource |
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