Sunday, April 12, 2020

Flemish Paintings by Unknown Artists (Three Centuries)

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Prince in Armour
ca. 1450-80
oil on panel
National Trust, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Beheading of St Barbara
late 15th century
oil on panel
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Anonymous Flemish Artist
The Nativity
ca. 1500
oil on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anonymous Flemish Artist
The Circumcision
ca. 1500
oil on panel
Courtauld Gallery, London

Anonymous Flemish Artist
St Catherine of Alexandria
16th century
oil on panel (altarpiece fragment)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Judgment of Solomon
1526
oil on panel
Manchester Art Gallery

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1550
oil on panel
Courtauld Gallery, London

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Susanna and the Elders
ca. 1580-1620
oil on panel
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Four Donor Figures
ca. 1620
oil on panel (from diptych)
National Trust, Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Five Donor Figures
ca. 1620
oil on panel (from diptych)
National Trust, Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Mount Calvary Chapel in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
(pilgrim souvenir)
17th century
oil on panel
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham

To Be A Pilgrim

Who would true valour see
Let him come hither –
One here will constant be,
Come wind, come weather.
There's no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a Pilgrim.

Who so beset him round
With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound,
His strength the more is.
No lion can him fright,
He'll with a giant fight,
But he will have a right
To be a Pilgrim.

Hobgoblin nor foul fiend
Can daunt his spirit –
He knows he at the end
Shall life inherit.
Then fancies fly away,
He'll fear not what men say,
He'll labour night and day
To be a Pilgrim.

– John Bunyan (1684)

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Portrait of a Lady
17th century
oil on panel
Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery, Kent

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Portrait of a Gentleman
ca. 1635-45
oil on canvas
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Personification of Fortitude
late 17th century
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anonymous Flemish Artist
Personification of Justice
late 17th century
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford