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| Cornelis van Haarlem Self Portrait ca. 1588-90 oil on panel Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem |
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| Cornelis van Haarlem Banquet for Members of the Civil Guard of Haarlem 1583 oil on canvas Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem |
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| Cornelis van Haarlem Banquet for Members of the Civil Guard of Haarlem (detail) 1583 oil on canvas Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem |
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| Cornelis van Haarlem Banquet for Members of the Civil Guard of Haarlem (detail) 1583 oil on canvas Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem |
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| Cornelis van Haarlem Banquet for Members of the Civil Guard of Haarlem (detail) 1583 oil on canvas Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem |
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| Cornelis van Haarlem Banquet for Members of the Civil Guard of Haarlem (detail) 1583 oil on canvas Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem |
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| attributed to Jan van Scorel Portrait of a Man before 1562 oil on panel Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
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| Jan Mostaert Portrait of a Woman 1525 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan Mostaert Portrait of Joost van Bronckhorst ca. 1520 oil on panel Petit Palais, Paris |
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| Jan Mostaert Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1500 oil and tempera on panel Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Jan Mostaert Portrait of Abel van Coustler ca. 1515-25 oil on panel Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
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| Jan Mostaert Portrait of a Man ca. 1520 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen Self Portrait painting the Portrait of a Woman ca. 1510 oil on panel Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist Portrait of a Man ca. 1520 oil on panel Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
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| Lucas van Leyden Portrait of a Man ca. 1521 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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I slept before a wall of books and they
calmed everything in the room, even
their contents, even me, woken
by the cold and thrill, the still
they said, like the Dutch verb for falling
silent that English has no accommodation for
in the attics and rafters of its intimacies.
– Saskia Hamilton (2012)