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Pieter Duyfhuysen (1608-1677), A Boy Eating Porridge, c 1640, Dutch. Oil on panel. 20.8 x 13.5 cm. In private collection, on loan to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (http://www.nga-gov).

With few exceptions, in no other place and at no other time has there been such a concentration of artistic talent as in the tiny, fledgling 17th-century Republic of the United Netherlands. Lying almost exclusively in the western part of the country were at least 10 cities that, although geographically close, each had its own, artistically distinctive style as well as its own famous sons and daughters. Among the cities were Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Haarlem, Leiden, Dordrecht, Deventer, Delft, Gouda, The Hague, and Middelburg. And although such names as Rembrandt, Hals, Vermeer, Steen, de Hooch, ter Borch, Metsu and Dou, Hobbema, Cuyp, van Ruisdael and van Kessel, Leyster and Ruysch may be familiar, they are only the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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