#Dutch Masters

[victusinveritas]

Two Women Teaching a Child to walk by Rembrandt.

Circa 1640, sketch

British Museum, London

[my-sacred-art-2]

Katherine Victoria Litwack, aka Kat Dennings (American, born Jun. 13, 1986).

Memory of the Garden at Etten, aka Ladies of Arles, 1888. Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Mar. 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890).

[blondebrainpowered]

The Girl in a Picture Frame, 1641

Artist: Rembrandt

It is currently located at the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

[thepaintedroom]

Gerrit Dou (Dutch, 1613–1675) • The Grocer's Shop • 1647 • Musée du Louvre

[mary-maud]

Dutch flower painting exhibition 💐

[the-cricket-chirps]

Vincent van Gogh

Almond Blossom

February 1890

(Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam)

[al-mayriti]

Noting that I went to a catholic high school in the midwestern US, I would say that between 30-40% of my classmates followed a life path similar to the following (so not even half, but still a significant amount):

1) Age 18-21: start dating someone in uni

2) Age 22/23: get a job shortly after graduation (or have one already organized, probably from a summer internship while in uni)

3) Age 22-24: get engaged to your uni bf/gf within a year of graduating, once you both have jobs basically

4) Age 23-26: wedding within a year or two of getting engaged, also buy a house if you have that kind of money lol

5) 9 months to 1 year after wedding (so 24-26 generally): baby!

I think it's important to note that this culture is able to continue because many college-educated young USAmericans are able to get a decent job very soon after graduating, which speeds up the rest of the process quite a bit. For people who are not able to get a job quickly, or who choose to do further studies, add on a few years. (And for people who don't go to uni, subtract a few!)

yeah i was gonna say, the only thing i envy of that is the getting a job so early and easy lol. i think that's also the main difference or why people aren't married so early here. in my experience (note that i went to a private upper class school so almost everyone went to university and pretty much everyone is employed right now except me lol)

1) 18-23. uni. a bunch of them were dating before uni, others during, some after, you know how it goes. and also a lot of them didn't date (like me).

2) 23-25. finishing uni, doing a master's degree, and or living abroad (usually to work).

3) 25-26. come back to spain and work here, or finished studying and got a job. they start dating seriously.

4) 26-28. if they've been dating for a while, engagement. if not, they continue the grind. if they live abroad especially which is honestly more than half of my circle rn they won't want to get engaged until they come back or decide to stay in the other country (normally their partner is from there).

5) 28-30. this is the future for me so i'm just speculating, but here is marriage + baby for those who can afford it. keep in mind most of us this age are still living with our parents so. that's another thing to have in mind.

more or less that's the idea here. you first want to have a stable job, then a stable house, and then you can start thinking about proposing and weddings and kids. and that doesn't happen soon.

[collectionstilllife]

Willem van Aelst (Dutch, 1626-1683) • Still life with fruit and a crystal vase • 1652 • Palazzo Pitti, Florence

[thepaintedroom]

Pieter de Hooch (Dutch, 1629-1684) • Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot • c. 1668–1672 • Private collection

[rael-f-wae]

My partner can copy Vermeers, and presumably anything else she feels like...would you believe she tried to get rid of this when we moved? "That was just for practice," she says...

I asked her how much she'd charge to paint someone in this style, ruffs and all, holding a tool of their trade, or a pet, or whatever else they liked. She said she hadn't thought about it, but as it would be a few days' work, "$300, I guess?"

So there you have it. $300 to paint you or someone else in the style of any old master you choose -- a rather inimitable gift, I think. And Mothers'/Fathers' Day are both coming rather soon! Just saying!

Send a DM if you're interested -- I'll make an Etsy listing on my otherwise-unrelated store for the transaction & send you the link, so you have purchase protection.

She'd probably be willing to do larger sizes if you like, and we could also have it framed for you before shipping, but those would probably raise the price, so let me know & I can ask her. (As for why I'm posting this, and not her, she thinks no one cares that she can copy Vermeers...well, I do, at the very least!)

[gethoce]

who and what is void in your au? how did his whole sealing happen? and where is he after the events of star allies?

Void eventually manage to make their way into the Dreamscape and is traveling far and wide using their skills to help people, as was originally meant to be.

[royalchildreneurope]

New : Count Claus-Casimir of Orange-Nassau will start his Master's degree in Economics at The London School of Economics and Political Science in September 2025, after completing his Bachelor's degree in Business Management at ESCP Business school in London, England -May 31st 2025.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Johannes Vermeer

Girl with a Pearl Earring (Meisje met de parel)

ca. 1665

[collectionstilllife]

Balthasar van der Ast (1593/1594–1657) • Still Life with Shells • c. 1640 • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

[my-sacred-art-2]

Raquel Welch (American, born Jo Raquel Tejata, Sep. 5, 1940 - Feb. 15, 2023).

The Starry Night, 1889. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch, Mar. 30, 1853 - Jul. 29, 1890)

[thepaintedroom]

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632-1675) • The Allegory of Faith • 1670–1672 • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York