Sir Henry Capel (1638–1696)

Sir Peter Lely is the artist behind "Sir Henry Capel", dated 1638–1696. Figurative in brief: Over the centuries, painters have used the figure to express social standing, narrative, and emotion. Portraits, group scenes, studies of the nude, and pictures of daily life all belong to figurative art. About the period around 1638–1696: In the Dutch Republic, a prosperous middle-class market supported landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and scenes of daily life painted at a modest scale for the home. The seventeenth century is the age of the Baroque, which favoured dramatic light, movement, and strong emotion in the work of painters in Italy, Spain, and Flanders. It is listed in the Figurative collection. The image is in portrait orientation.

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Dutch, 1618–1680

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