Bagpiper and Girl

Bagpiper and GirlThe composition may derive from a Dutch print, such as that by Jacob Matham after Goltzius: 'A Young Woman preftrs a Lover her Own Age to the Riches of an Older Man'. The execution is crude and may well be British.

Harwood proposes a date of 1653/4 (in Williamstown/Sarasota 1994-5)

although Bacci expresses reservations

This is a perfect example of the Dutch vision of Italy

whose work was little known outside his native Dordrecht

published two books of songs and anthems

Pynacker pays homage with a suitably abased view-point

keeper of the Royal Treasury

them' (The Diary of Joseph Farington

but the picture does not seem to be the work of a close follower and probably dates from the late sixteenth century

surrounded by thorny trees and a wide

Roger de Piles (1635-1709)

Probably painted in the late 1650s or early 1660s