Dulwich Picture Gallery~Anya, Louis, Zeinab~

Dulwich Picture Gallery houses lots of old master paintings, particularly French, Italian and Spanish Baroque paintings, and British portraits from Tudor times to

the 19th century. There are works in there by lots of famous artists including Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Poussin, and Rubens.

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RembrandtGirl at a Window1645

Reinaldo and Armida - Nicolas Poussin - 1629

Carlo Dolci - Saint Catherine of Siena - 1665-70

Thomas Gainsborough - Samuel Linley - 1778

Sir Thomas LawrenceWilliam Linley1789

Jan van HuysumVase with Flowers1720

Jan van Huysum - Still Life - 1724

Joan Cromwell was the wife of William Judde, with whom she is shown in a double portrait dated 1560. Although it appears to be a memorial portrait, with parents mourning a deceased adult son, the inscriptions hint instead at a wedding portrait. They read: "We beholde ower ende," "The worde of God hathe knit us twain and death shall us divide agayne," and "Live to Die; Die to Live Etarnally."

British SchoolThe Judde Memorial1560

Parry WaltonStill Life Before 1686

Christ Carried to the TombSisto Badalocchio1607

Boats in a StormLudolf Bakhuizen1696

The Boat is sailing into an estuary in order to gain the harbour, although the strong wind has driven it against the line of stakes. Men on shore are pulling on a rope to steady her and other boats are coming to help. The church and burst of blue sky to the right suggests that the scene may have an allegorical meaning concerning man's (or perhaps a nation's) struggle towards salvation. This painting, dated 1696, belongs to the last and most polished phase of the Golden Age of Dutch painting. Viewers today tend to be disturbed by the artfulness of the scene. We expect instantaneous actions and the turbulence of Nature to be rendered with a raw, direct, bold and sketchy touch like the storm scenes of Turner.

Brawl in a Guard-roomSébastien Bourdon1640s