Raoul de Keyser. Prologue (‘Proloog’), 2003 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 140 x 100.6 cm.

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Jan Brueghel the elder. Visit to the Tenants (‘Besuch auf dem Pachthof’), ca. 1597 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on copper: 27 x 36 cm. A copy by Jan Brueghel the elder of a now lost original by his father Pieter Bruegel. The Frits Lugt Collection in Paris still holds a grisaille drawing attributed to Pieter Bruegel, dated 1567 and titled 'Visit to the Tenant Farmer' (Fondation Custodia, Paris). In Antwerp lies another grisaille panel by Jan Brueghel the elder, titled 'Visit to the Peasants' (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp). Yet another oil on wood panel copy in The Holburne Museum/ UK by Pieter Brueghel the younger (son of Pieter Bruegel, and brother of Jan Brueghel the elder), dated ca. 1620 and titled ‘The Visit of the Godfather’. It was initially thought that the scene depicted a visit by a rich foster father to a newly born godchild, but it is now believed to represent a maternity visit by a landlord to his tenants.

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Paul Gauguin. Young Girl with a Fan (‘Jeune fille à l'éventail’), 1902 (Museum Folkwang, Essen).

Oil on canvas: 91.9 x 72.9 cm.

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Edvard Munch. Red Rocks by Åsgårdstrand (’Røde knauser ved Åsgårdstrand’), 1904 (Munchmuseet, Oslo).

Oil on canvas: 70.5 x 100.5 cm. Photo credit: Sidsel de Jong.

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Meredith Frampton. Marguerite Kelsey, 1928 (Tate Modern, London).

Oil on canvas: 120.8 x 141.2 cm. Kelsey (1909-1995) was a professional model in the 1920s and 1930s. Renowned for her gracefulness she sat to about 20 London artists. She became so popular that she was often booked months in advance. This work was originally titled 'Woman Reclining', but changed by the artist for a Tate Gallery retrospective in 1982. During this retrospective Kelsey was the only still-living sitter who had not yet been traced. She had been living in New Zealand. Upon seeing reviews of the exhibition, she contacted the Gallery and visited the exhibition. According to Kelsey the artist required a perfect morning light. The painting required at least twelve and possibly as many as twenty-four sittings. The Beeton portrait: here.

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Cornelis Saftleven. Satire on the Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church (‘Satire op de uittocht van de geestelijkheid uit 's-Hertogenbosch’), 1629 (Het Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch).

Oil on wood: 40.3 x 55.6 cm.

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Will Cotton. Candy Cloud, 2010 (private collection).

Oil on linen: 183 x 244 cm.

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Max Pechstein. The Green Sofa ('Das Grüne Sofa'), 1910 (Museum Ludwig, Cologne).

Oil on canvas: 96.5 x 96.5 cm. Verso: Portrait of the Artist’s Wife (‘Bildnis der Gattin des Künstlers’).

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Jan Kupecký. Self-Portrait of the Artist with his Wife and Son (‘A művész önarcképe feleségével és kisfiával’), ca. 1719 (Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest).

Oil on canvas: 113 x 91.2 cm.

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Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg (Михаил Константинович Клодт). In the Fields, 1872 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).

Oil on canvas: 71 х 131 cm.

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William Scott. Hamburgh Variations V, 1966 (private collection).

Gouache on paper: 68.6 x 54 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, December 2013.

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Jean-François Millet. Nymphs resting in the Forest ('Nymphes au fond du bois'), 1846 (Phoenix Art Museum).

Oil on mahogany: ca. 30 x 25 cm(!).

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Ruprecht von Kaufmann. In Thought (‘In Gedanken‘), 2020 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on linoleum: 40 x 30 cm.

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Pieter van Anraadt. Still Life with Earthenware Jug and Clay Pipes (‘Stilleven met stenen kruik en pijpen’), 1658 (Mauritshuis, The Hague).

Oil on canvas: 67 x 58.8 cm.

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Edvard Munch. Girls on the Bridge (‘Pikene på broen’), 1902 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 101 x 102.5 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, May 2008 and November 2016. Price tag: US$ 54.487.500 (ca. € 43.800.000).

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Willem van der Vliet. A Scholar in his Study with Figures with Masks, 1627 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 149 x 112 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, January 2011.

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Frank Nitsche. ORT-20-2015, 2015 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 150 x 115 cm.

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Aelbert Cuyp. Thunderstorm over Dordrecht (‘Gewitter über Dordrecht’), ca. 1645 (private collection, Zürich).

Oil on wood: 77.5 x 107 cm.

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Jonathan Gardner. The Lavender Room, 2014 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on linen: 106.7 x 96.5 cm.

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Carl Fredrik Hill. Road with sitting Dog - Fontainebleau (‘Väg med sittande hund - Fontainebleau’), 1876 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 81 x 101 cm. Auctioned at Bukowskis Stockholm, June 2020.

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Joachim Uytewael/ Wtewael. Perseus releases Andromeda (‘Persée secourant Andromède’), 1611 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Oil on canvas: 180 x 150 cm.

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Thorvald Erichsen. Houseplant in Window (‘Potteplante i vindu’), 1924 (private collection).

Oil on paper on canvas: 55 x 46 cm. Auctioned at Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner Oslo, May 2017 (unsold).

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Max Beckmann. Resting Woman with Carnations - Quappi on the Sofa by Lamplight (’Ruhende Frau mit Nelken - Quappi auf dem Sofa bei Licht’), ca. 1942 (Sprengel Museum, Hannover).

Oil on canvas: 90.2 x 70.5 cm.

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Natee Utarit. Ball of Greed and Illusion no. 1, 2008 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 180.5 x 160 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, April 2021. Natee Utarit (2018): “I’m always asking the people around me if we aren’t looking at things too optimistically. Is everything we see really as beautiful as it seems? These kinds of questions aren’t meant to destroy people’s faith; they are a reflection of our uncertainty and loss of belief in the reality right there in front of us. We can’t deny that always looking at life through rose-coloured glasses doesn’t teach us much of anything about how to live our lives in the world as it is today - a world where reality is so much more intense and so radically different from the past”.

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Melchior d'Hondecoeter. A Peacock attacking a Rooster, ca. 1670 (Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest).

Oil on canvas: 142 x 174.5 cm.

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