by Jon Lackman | 12 March 2007 | Baroque/Neoclassical
From The Art Newspaper: “In a brilliant piece of art historical detective work, two Dutch academics have solved the puzzle of Jan Steen’s 1655 painting The Burgomaster of Delft and His Daughter. The work does not depict a burgomaster, but the merchant who supplied grain for the artist’s brewery. We also now know about a bitter marital row which lay behind the apparently placid figures of the father and his daughter … The astonishing story of The Burgomaster of Delft and His Daughter is told by [Frans] Grijzenhout and [Niek] van Sas in a book to be published by the Rijksmuseum in English later this month.”
