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The Four Elements – Stoskopff 1635
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 23 2012
Sebastian Stoskopff 1597 – 1657 Detail woodpeckers, brazier, plate, artichoke, wood...
Still Life with Bread and Fish – Flegel 1637
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 22 2012
Georg Flegel 1566 – 1638 Now that is a big fly or maybe the loaf of bread is really ...
A Ship’s Boat – Scott
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 21 2012
Samuel Scott, ca. 1702-1772 from the Yale Center for British Art Very interesting wa...
Boy with a Basket of Bread – Baschenis about 1665
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 18 2012
Evaristo Baschenis 1617 – 1677 Day 5 of Bread week. Detail: boy, bread, fancy brea...
Still Life with Bread – Schooten 17th century
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 17 2012
Floris Gerritsz. van Schooten 1590 – 1655 Day four of bread week! Detail: cheese, sil...
Still Life with Bread, Butter and Cheese – Smith 1754
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 16 2012
George Smith, 1714-1776 from Yale Center for British Art Day 3 of bread week, the...
Rich and Poor – Unknown Painter 17th Century
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 15 2012
Day 2 of Bread Week on Siftingthepast. The rich man has bread in abundance and vari...
Kitchen Still-Life – Schooten
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 14 2012
Floris Gerritsz. van Schooten 1590 – 1655? Detail: food, produce, cabbage, articho...
Still Life with Bread by Ceruti about 1750
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 14 2012
Giacomo Ceruti 1698 – 1767 It’s bread week on Siftingthepast in honor of the new bre...
Fishmonger’s stall – Nebot 1737
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 11 2012
Balthazar Nebot, active 1730-1762 from the Yale Center for British Art Detail: fish,...
The Watercress Girl – Smith 1780
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 10 2012
John Raphael Smith, 1752-1812 from the Yale Center for British Art Detail: girl, ...
Men Loading a Boat with Barrels – Scott
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 09 2012
Samuel Scott, ca. 1702-1772 from the Yale Center for British Art Detail: boat, mast...
Hob Selling Beer at the Wake – Laguerre 1725
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 08 2012
John Laguerre, 1688-1746 from the Yale Center for British Art This painting depicts...
A New Way to Pay the National Debt – Gillray 1796
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 07 2012
James Gillray 1756 – 1815 It’s a left over from wheelbarrow week. It is caricature...
The Barber’s Shop – Laroon 1769
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 04 2012
Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679-1772 from the Yale Center for British Art Detail:...
Monmouth Cap – Chaudet 1799
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 03 2012
Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763–1810) Sometimes in a picture you only see one thing but i...
London Cries, A Lace Seller – Sandby 1759
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 02 2012
Paul Sandby, 1731-1809, from Yale Center for British Art Detail: lace, stick, bed ja...
Breakfast of a Young Man – Slingelandt
Jonathan Townsend
Posted on May 01 2012
Pieter Cornelisz. van Slingelandt 1640 – 1691 Don’t tell this guy that the “sandwich”...