Art Appreciation
Since I started this blog, back in 2008, I've been featuring artists found via the internet -- Wikipedia being my primary source. This one is a particular find. More so because this artist lived a short life.
Willem Drost was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker of historical allegories. He was a student of Rembrandt before traveling to Rome with painters Karel Lot, Joan vander Meer, and Lieve Verschuier. He died in Venice on February 25, 1659.
Several paintings that were thought to be Rembrandt's were later attributed to Willem Drost such as Portrait of a Young Woman with her Hands Folded on a Book.
Portrait of a Man (c. 1655)
Portrait of a Young Woman with her Hands Folded on a Book (1653)
Bathsheba (1654)
Sources:
Wikipedia, metmuseum.org
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