3/10/2013

Herring, Cherries and Glassware - Willem Van Aelst

The painting is in Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow and I have seen it many times. Only recently learned that is was bought by the wife of a slave trader in the city in the 1690s. She bequeathed it to the city. Beauty from horror.

2 comments:

  1. Interesting history to this exquisite still life..

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  2. History.

    You gotta love it.

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