Jacob Huysmans
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Jacob Huysmans was a Flemish portrait painter who, after training in his native Antwerp, immigrated to England before the Restoration. He became a feted court painter and attracted the patronage of th
Portrait of Queen Catharine
Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield, and his wife Charlotte Fitzroy as children
Elizabeth Cornwallis, Mrs Edward Allen (d. 1708), as Diana the Huntress
John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale
Catherine of Alexandria
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Catherine of Alexandria, also spelled Katherine, was, according to tradition, a Christian virgin and martyr, who suffered martyrdom in the early 4th century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. Acco
Jacob Huysmans
…doublet like a soldier) as good pictures, I think, as ever I saw.' Queen Catharine as a Shepherdess (c. 1664, British Royal Collection) and the Queen as St Catherine of Alexandria (of which there are various versions) were among the pictures Pepys saw on that occasion. While he spent the majority of his career in London, Huysmans…
Caravaggio, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1598–99, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Icon of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, with scenes from her martyrdom
Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Artemisia Gentileschi, c. 1619
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherina by Anthony van Dyck, 1618-20.