Road by the Edge of a Lake Size:extra large them' (The Diary of Joseph

them' (The Diary of Joseph Farington

More than three hundred and fifty years after she was painted - Rembrandt's ability to conjure up the sense of a living being out of paint can still astound

forget-me-nots and roses - and the marble ledge

Jan Both is known to have collaborated with figure painters on some works

the many varieties of flower - iris

Road by the Edge of a Lake Size:extra large them' (The Diary of JosephJan Both was one of the most influential and important of the Dutch Italianate painters, based in Utrecht. He had certainly travelled to Italy, between 1638 and 1641. This picture was probably painted when Both was in Rome. His older brother, Andries (born c. 1612), also a painter, drowned tragically in a Venetian canal in 1642. The broad characterisation and handling of the figures seems to contrast with the delicacy of the landscape detail which has