Dutch painter Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693) was a student of Rembrandt, who worked in Amsterdam and Dordrecht. One of his signature motifs is the eavesdropper, seen here in The Eavesdropping Man (1655) & The Listening Wife (1656).
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-07/pages/079-my-dearest-child/
A “genre painting” by Arnaldo Ferragut (1862-1925), engraved by Richard Bong in 1893.
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For all my Art History education it was only last night that I discovered tronies
Yes - tronie is a word Scrabble players
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