Poultry

PoultryAnimal painting became increasingly popular in the 17th century, although sporting scenes and hunt trophies were more usual subjects than live domestic creatures. The genre originates with Dutch and Flemish painters, several of whom visited London during William Cartwright's lifetime (who bequeathed this painting to Dulwich College in 1686). This painting could nonetheless also be the work of a British artist for example Francis Barlow (1626 1704),

de Paula Marti of 1794

the altarpiece was presumably painted at approximately the same time

Jeffree suggests that she may be Catherine Willoughby de Eresby (1519-80)

X-ray analysis shows that the composition was changed several times

The Graces - Euphrosyne

A variant on such bust-length figure studies as the 'Man in a Gorget and a Plumed Cap' is in the J

This attribution is rejected by Lasius

Following the Crucifixion

This is probably Reynolds's early version of the subject

Falling somewhere between genre and portraiture

he was canonised in 1690

Conceivably they are the Daughters of Jerusalem who followed Christ on his way to Calvary