Soldiers on the March

Soldiers on the MarchA copy with variations, notably in the right foreground, of Watteau's 'Retour de Campagne', lost but known in Cochin's engraving of 1727.

Desenfans bought this work in 1785 believing it to be by Rembrandt

An underlying portrait of a young man is clearly visible above the horse's mane as first detected in the nineteenth century by the copyist W

bees would have had a particular significance

and their works are not always easy to separate

An early work comparable with the Landscape with a Rider resting in the Museum der Bildenden Künste

dated 1712

Bartholomew Beale assisted his mother Mary Beale in her studio

The sitter was previously identified with Thomas Osborne

This means that the original viewer would have gazed at a familiar world and seen a familiar-looking girl gazing back

to whom he bears some resemblance (cf

Saint Catherine is shown in the habit of a Dominican tertiary with a crown of thorns

Roger de Piles (1635-1709)