Thank you very much! The work has many marvelously great and mature artworks presented of very experienced hands… and though I have a little knowledge of the people mentioned, the are quite revealing historical events stated, too.

The following is a quite thought-provoking idea:

What buyers of the period did want was pictures of figures in domestic interiors: recognizable people doing recognizable things, at leisure or at work, surrounded by traces of their lives—babies, animals, furniture, pots and pans, musical instruments, pieces of fabric, jewelry.

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