Jan de Bray, Banquet of Mark Antony and Cleopatra (detail) 1652. Lent by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

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Painting Family: The De Brays

Ian DeJardin sheds light on four exceptionally talented painters issuing from a single family: Salomon de Bray and his sons Jan, Joseph and Dick.

Dirk de Bray

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Flower still life with poet's narcissi, crown anemonies and columbine, 1674

Flowers and insects populate this painting, there is a hoverfly buzzing happily above one of the narcissi and a very small, delicate spider drops down into the picture while butterflies enjoy the spectacle of the blooms.

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