Dutch Masterpieces

In the span of just a hundred years, thousands upon thousands of paintings were produced by prolific Dutch painters. One of the most surprising aspects of this unprecedented artistic production was its great variety of themes and styles. The diversity of Dutch seventeenth-century paintings was fostered by the fact that instead of painting to the order of a few wealthy and powerful, painters were (for the first time in the history of Western art) producing whares commercially. Individual buyers of different backgrounds and various tastes were receptive to pictures of all kinds of subject matter and a wide range of styles.

The following paintings comprise a virtual gallery of some of the most unique works of Dutch art

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Girl with a Candle
Godfried Cornelisz. Schalcken
late 1660s
Pitti Gallery, Florence

Dutch Painters