Sunday, December 14, 2025

Godfried Schalcken
(1643 - 1706)
 

Godfried Schalcken was a Dutch artist who specialized in genre paintings and portraits. Schalcken was noted for his night scenes and mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight. He painted in the highly polished style of the Leiden fijnschilders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfried_Schalcken


Fire and Light (A Girl Places a Candle in a Lantern and a Boy Blows on the Coals in a Chafing-Dish)
attributed to Godfried Schalcken, 1690 - 1706
Oil on canvas
46 x 38cm
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Fire-and-Light-A-Girl-Places-a-Candle-in-a-Lantern-and-a-Boy-Blows-on-the-Coals-in-a-Chafing-Dish--1e5628a7eafd9eb84cc338d591de4c56

No comments:

Post a Comment

Henry Robert Morland 1730–1797   Henry Robert Morland  was an English portrait painter, best remembered for a portrait of King George III, a...