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| Cornelis de Zeeu Pierre de Moucheron & Isabeau de Gerbier, their eighteen Children, Son-in-Law and first Grandchild 1563 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Maerten de Vos the Elder Antonio Anselmo & Joanna Hooftman with Gillis and Janneken 1577 oil on panel Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels |
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| attributed to Cornelis Bisschop Portrait of a Family ca. 1660 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans |
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| Jan van Somer Study for Family Portrait ca. 1669 drawing British Museum |
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| Pieter Thys Portrait of an Almoner with his Wife and Children as an Allegory of Charity ca. 1660-70 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Wallerant Vaillant Family Portrait before 1677 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Januarius Zick Portrait of the Remy Family of Bensdorf 1776 oil on canvas Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg |
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| Johann Eleazar Schenau Portrait of Mother, Father and Children ca. 1779 ink and watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Emilius Ditlev Baerentzen The Winther Family 1827 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller Josef August Eltz & Caroline Eltz née Schaumburg with their Eight Children in Ischl 1835 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Eastman Johnson The Brown Family 1869 oil on paper, mounted on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Laurits Regner Tuxen Christian IX, King of Denmark, with the Royal Family ca. 1883-86 oil on canvas Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen |
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| Marguerite Zorach The Zorach Family in a Landscape 1915 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Christopher Wood French Family 1927 oil on board Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead, Merseyside |
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| Florine Stettheimer Family Portrait II 1933 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Andy Warhol Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Rauschenberg Family) 1962 screenprint on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Gilbert and George Family Tree 1991 hand-colored photomontage Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
Sonnet
No worse, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief-
woe, world-sorrow; on an age-old anvil wince and sing –
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked "No ling-
ering! Let me be fell: force I must be brief".
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
– Gerard Manley Hopkins (1885)