Jan Cossiers was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. Cossiers' earliest works were Caravaggesque genre works depicting low life scenes. Later in his career he painted mostly history and religious subje
Portrait of a man holding a violin and a medallion with a miniature of a woman
The Parable of the Prodigal Son
Adriaen Brouwer was a Flemish painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century. Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid depictions
Adriaen Brouwer, a c. 1631 portrait by Anthony van Dyck
The Bitter Draught (1636–1638), Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
The Smokers (1636) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Peasants Brawling Over Cards, ca. 1632–1635. Alte Pinakothek, Munich