Flemish Art 1600–1730
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 80 Flemish paintings which date from between 1600 and 1730. This collection of Flemish oil paintings is one of the finest of its kind in the UK, and the largest in Scotland. It represents a wide range of artists including important works by leading artists, such as Rubens and Jordaens, along with a particularly extensive and varied mix of works by David Teniers the Younger, court artist to the archdukes. Most categories are also represented, including fine portraits, allegories, religious subjects, landscapes, still lifes, 'everyday' scenes and figure studies. Flemish painting in this collection is broadly defined to encompass those works made in the Spanish Netherlands, a territory in the southern part of the Low Countries of north-west Europe that remained under Habsburg (Spanish) rule after 1581, when the northern part broke away as the Dutch Republic.
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