The art of the Wallace Collection, including an account of its founders, a description of the pictures, and a survey of the chief exhibits in the galleries devoted to objects of art and arms and armour (1913)
Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles) · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 144
emian life whichJan Steen affected is made in The Lute Player,the male figure of which is supposed to be a portraitof the artist, and the wheel comes full circle in the Merrymaking in a Tavern, which exhales those fumes to which Ruskin objected so strongly.That tavern scene, however, will delight… … Dutcb an^ jflemisb Cabinet pictures loi the artist forgotten to lavish equal skill upon thecat and dog. The canvas is at once a work of artand an excellent example of the humourous anec-dote. Tavern life, too, is represented among the addi-tional examples by David Teniers the younger, forone of the…
Wallace Collection (London, England) · Painting -- England London · Art objects -- England London
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