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| Jan Steen The Physician's Visit ca. 1660 oil on panel Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Jan Steen Celebrating the Birth 1664 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Gaspard Dughet Campagna Landscape ca. 1672-75 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| Gaspard Dughet Classical Landscape ca. 1650-60 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| Pieter de Hooch Boy bringing Bread ca. 1663 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Pieter de Hooch Woman peeling Apples ca. 1663 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Claude Lorrain Landscape with Aeneas at Delos 1672 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age,
When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage,
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store,
When I have seen such interchange of state
Or state itself confounded to decay,
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
– William Shakespeare
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| Claude Lorrain Landscape with the Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca 1648 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Adriaen Brouwer The Topers ca. 1630 oil on panel Dover Collections, Kent |
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| Adriaen Brouwer Interior of a Tavern ca. 1630 oil on panel Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
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| Herman Saftleven View on the Rhine 1672 oil on panel Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
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| Herman Saftleven Christ teaching from St Peter's Boat on the Lake of Gennesaret 1667 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Thomas Wyck Alchemist in his Laboratory with an Assistant ca. 1673 oil on canvas National Trust, Ham House, London |
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| Thomas Wyck Figures in the Courtyard of a House ca. 1660 oil on panel Fairfax House, York |