Courtyard with a Farrier shoeing a Horse Size:extra large around 1714-16

around 1714-16

The broad characterisation and handling of the figures seems to contrast with the delicacy of the landscape detail which has led to suggestions that Andries might be responsible for them

orange blossom

During the recent conservation of the painting

Young David holds the impaled head of the Philistine giant and marches in front of a general riding a white horse

Courtyard with a Farrier shoeing a Horse Size:extra large around 1714-16Wouwermans was the son of one artist (Pauwels), and brother to two more (Pieter and Johannes, both of whom seem to have been subsumed into their more talented brother's studio). The return of Pieter van Laer, (Il Bamboccio) from Italy to Haarlem in 1638 seems to have caught the young Wouwermans at a seminal moment (he joined the Haarlem Guild in 1640). The story, told by Houbraken, that Wouwermans acquired sketches and notebooks of Van Laer's after