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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1031613, member: 2844&quot;]Beautifully painted plate, Mugz, all I can add to the excellent post by s-i-s (as always <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />) is some info about the painter of the original painting.</p><p><br /></p><p>The scene is indeed after Bisschop. Christoffel Bisschop (1828-1904) was a painter from Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands. He was famous for rather sentimental paintings in a Frisian folk setting, though not exclusively that genre. The original would have been one of his folk setting paintings, but I haven&#039;t found it yet.</p><p>In his day Bisschop was as famous as his Frisian contemporary, Lourens (Lawrence) Alma Tadema, and his wife was given jewellery by European royalty.</p><p>Since then his work has gone out of fashion. Recently there has been renewed interest, but not on the scale of Alma Tadema&#039;s more internationally appealling paintings.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a typical Bisschop painting, a mother mourning the loss of her baby. Every part of the interior and the dress is Frisian:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhistoriek.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads-phistor1%2F2016%2F06%2Fdd-30-1024x947.jpg&amp;sp=a0e5da87d1325ddef844ad24b238ea91&amp;anticache=279318" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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