Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 584339, member: 2844&quot;]That&#039;s it, I kept thinking wasn&#039;t there another word? So baluster turned spindles. Today is one of those brain freeze days.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>James, you asked about paintings.</p><p>Of course there were painters in Zeeland, where both chairs seem to be from. The Chartwell chair has a central medallion with a portrait of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, who was also from Zeeland. In fact he was from Vlissingen, where van Isacker currently lives.</p><p>I don&#039;t know the names of any Zeeland painters, they were not very well known, but you could google them. Another possibility is to research paintings of the Antwerp School. Antwerp is much closer to both Middelburg and Vlissingen than Amsterdam, and it would have been considered the nearest big city.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp_school" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp_school" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp_school</a></p><p><br /></p><p>During the 16th-17th centuries the Low Countries were partitioned in many ways. They were at war with the Spanish at the time.</p><p>While Amsterdam was getting rich from overseas trade (partly stolen from the Hanseatic League), other parts of the country were struggling to survive the horrors of wave after wave of occupation by one army or another. Some Holland towns supported the struggle of the other regions some of the time, other times they just couldn&#039;t care about the very lands that helped liberate Holland.</p><p>That is why it is possible that the Holland painters would have had no idea of Zeeland furniture.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of the Holland painters Vermeer was the only one who made a political statement, when he painted a map of the entire Low Countries in the background of this painting. On its side.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.alletop10lijstjes.nl/wp-content/uploads/De-schilderkunst.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The history of the Low Countries, and the influence it still has today, is complicated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in