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1905 Second Annual Exhibition, Philadelphia Water Color Club, 3-29 Apr., 1905,

Gabriel Metsu was born in Leiden sometime between November 27 and mid-December 1629, about eight months after the death of his father, the Flemish painter Jacques Metsue. In 1644, when fifteen-year-old Gabriel Metsu joined a semiformal group of local artists, he entered the membership rolls as a “painter.� Six days after the establishment of Leiden’s Saint Luke’s Guild in 1648, Metsu paid his membership dues as an independent master.
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz

Unlike some of his contemporaries, John Frederick Kensett felt no need to travel to the tropics or the American West to find compelling subjects to paint. Instead, he continually revisited several familiar locales in New York and New England where he could explore the ways in which the same motif was altered by subtle differences in light and atmosphere.
Cummings, Historic Annals of the National Academy of Design (1825-1863), Philadelphia

Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Philadelphia;[2] inheritance from Estate of

The three cargo ships in this large painting are the type of wide-bellied, seagoing vessels used to transport much of the commodities that generated the wealth of the Dutch in the seventeenth century. Flying the red, white, and blue flag of the Dutch Republic, these floating symbols of national prosperity are nevertheless in peril of crashing on the rocky shore.
Art Institute of Chicago; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Painted in a single day, Young Woman in White represents one of Robert Henri’s favorite professional models, the Czech-born Eugenie Stein. Henri is justly noted for the life-size, grand manner studio portraits of women, like this one, that he often sent to exhibitions to demonstrate his command of the full-length format.
Art Museum, New Jersey, January 1932, no catalogue. 1933 Memorial Exhibition, Philadelphia

The most accomplished member of a gifted and well-to-do artistic family, Gerard ter Borch was born in Zwolle in 1617. Probably not long after the death of his mother, Anna Bufken, in 1621, Ter Borch began his training with his father, the draftsman Gerard ter Borch the Elder (1584–1662).
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz

[fig2] Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of Henry P.

Pieter de Hooch excelled in the sensitive depiction of people going about their daily lives, be it inside their houses or in the sheltered environment of an urban courtyard. His masterly control of light, color, and complex perspectival construction can be compared to the work of Johannes Vermeer, his contemporary and colleague in Delft.
Widener, Ashbourne, near Philadelphia. 2 vols.

Jan Steen’s paintings encompass a wide range of moods and subjects, from intimate scenes of a family saying grace before a meal to festive village celebrations, yet all of his paintings elicit a warm reaction to the lives of ordinary people. All five senses are represented in this work in which two young musicians play for a dancing couple while other people in the vine-covered arbor flirt, eat, drink, or smoke, and children amuse themselves with their toys.
Widener, Ashbourne, near Philadelphia. 2 vols.