Gabriël Metsu
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Gabriël Metsu was a Dutch painter of history paintings, still lifes, portraits, and genre works. He was "a highly eclectic artist, who did not adhere to a consistent style, technique, or one type of s
Gabriël Metsu self-portrait, with his wife, in an inn (1661)
Man Writing a Letter (1662–1665) (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin)
The pendant Woman Reading a Letter, (1665) (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin)
An alley on Prinsengracht 369 close to where Metsu lived between number 351 and 353
Maria de Grebber
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Maria de Grebber, was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Grebber was talented at depicting buildings and perspective.
Gabriël Metsu
…house on the canal side, where a daily vegetable market was held. In 1658 he married Isabella de Wolff, whose father was a potter and mother the painter Maria de Grebber. At the onset of the 1660s Metsu turned for inspiration to the art of the "fijnschilders" from his native Leiden. Metsu was responding to the market…
Supposed portrait of Maria de Grebber at her easel by her son-in-law Gabriel Metsu, c. 1660
Portrait of Augustinus de Wolff, the brother-in-law of the artist