A Flemish Entertainment. From the Original Picture, Painted

by Van Harp, In the Collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Bute by After Willem Van Herp

$950 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A very fine genre picture, expertly interpreted by Earlom and Walker. The artist of the original work is probably Willem van Herp not Harp as in the title : the most likely candidate from amongst a prolific family of 17th-century Flemish painters. A riotous scene, full of movement, set in an anteroom in a Flemish tavern. In the foreground a cat and dog pause momentarily during their ongoing battle. Guests are seated around a table set with bread and ham. A small boy reaches

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