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Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters
Hendrick Avercamp, c. 1608, painting, SK-A-1718
Hendrick Avercamp turned the winter landscape into a subject in its own right. A typical feature of his early work is the high horizon. This enabled Avercamp to focus on the dozens of figures on the ice. He showed all kinds of uncouth details in this bird’s-eye view, including couples making love…
On display in room 2.6
Interior of the Sint-Odulphuskerk…
Pieter Jansz Saenredam, 1649, painting, SK-C-217
Once a Catholic church, St Odulphus’s passed into Protestant hands at the start of the Dutch Revolt against Spain. The artist shows a service taking place. Worshippers are listening to the preacher on the right in the pulpit. Sermons are the main feature of a Protestant service. Saenredam came…
On display in room 2.14
Portrait of Gerard Andriesz Bicker
Bartholomeus van der Helst, c. 1642, painting, SK-A-147
Bartholomeus van der Helst portrayed both Bickers, father and son. The difference between the two generations is striking. The father is dressed in sober black, wearing an old-fashioned millstone ruff. His son Gerard - here about twenty - appears in a colourful, flamboyant costume, with a flat…
On display in room 2.18
The Batavians Defeating the Romans…
Otto van Veen, 1600 - 1613, painting, SK-A-424
On display in room 2.1
The Cattle Ferry
Esaias van de Velde, 1622, painting, SK-A-1293
On display in room 2.6
Landscape with an old oak
Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1639 - c. 1641, painting, SK-A-4093
On display in room 2.6
Venus and Adonis
Bartholomeus Spranger, c. 1585 - c. 1590, painting, SK-A-3888
On display in room 2.1
Orestes and Pylades Disputing at…
Pieter Lastman, 1614, painting, SK-A-2354
On display in room 2.8
The Great Assembly of 1651
Bartholomeus van Bassen, c. 1651, painting, SK-C-1350
On display in room 2.18
Winter
Jan van Goyen, 1625, painting, SK-A-3946
On display in room 2.6