Places are available for the Gallery Talk on Dutch Masters (including Vermeer, Rembrandt and Hals) on Friday 1st April, from 10.30am until 12.30pm at the National Gallery. Please contact me if you’d like to join the group that morning, and I’ll send you further details.
The collection of Dutch artists of the 17th century at the National Gallery is truly stunning with masterpieces by Vermeer, Rembrandt, de Hooch and Hals. With an entre room dedicated to Rembrandt including iconic works by him such as two of his Self-Portraits, 'A Woman Bathing in a Stream' and 'Belshazzar's Feast' together with Vermeer's 'A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal' and 'A Young Woman Seated at a Virginal', we'll be spoilt for choice!
Artists of the Dutch Golden Age created stunning masterpieces, typically specialising in specific subject matter, whether history, biblical, portraits, still-life or genre. Vermeer perfected a unique style, producing interior scenes of elegant domesticity and composed serenity. Rembrandt’s work embraced virtually every type of subject and focused on penetrating realism and deep emotion. His self-portraits were painted with direct honesty and intense personal scrutiny; his private life was inseparable from the character of his art.
