RDS_treasures_122_Jordaens_Jacob's Dream.jpg
Depicts Jacob sleeping in a woodland in the lower right foregound, with angels in the background.
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RDS_treasures_9_Cuyp_Angel and St Peter.jpg
Depicts a winged angel, wearing a white robe, to the right of the composition, his head cast downwards to St. Peter, who wears a blue robe and yellow mantle, and is crawling in the lower centre of the composition; two other figures look on, one in…
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RDS_treasures_6_De La Hyre_St Paul Preaching.jpg
St. Paul depicted to the right of the composition, wearing a green robe and red mantle, standing on a low plinth, right arm extended, preaching in a temple with a landscape beyond; behind him a group of six figures, one seated; to the right of the…
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RDS_treasures_117_Gibb_Comrades.jpeg
History painting depicting three infantrymen from the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot – known as the Black Watch – during the Crimean War (1853-56). Positioned centre, an infantryman sits injured on the ground, directed left, his gaze…
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RDS_treasures_3_Barry_Cymbelene.jpeg
History painting; the subject, Cymbeline, Act II, Scene II, Iachimo emerging from the chest in Imogen’s bedchamber, by William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Set in pre-Christian Roman England, the central plot of the play revolves around a wager by a…
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St. Mark and the Lion, by Solomon Coninck
A bearded and bespectacled St. Mark seated in a dimly lit studio, clothed in white chemise and dark robes, sharpening a calamus, the lion lying at his feet, and a large leather-bound tome on a table to the left.
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