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Heda's Banquet Piece, Frans Hals' Willem Coymans, and Rembrandt's Lucretia. Paintings by these and other masters attracted the American collectors P. A. B. Widener, his son Joseph, and Andrew W. Mellon, whose bequests form the heart of the National Gallery's distinguished and remarkably cohesive collection of ninety-one Dutch paintings.
This work presents the diverse themes and meanings of the school of painting that is so inadequately described as 'genre'. With reference to featured major works of such masters as Adriaen Brouwer, Adriaen Van Ostade and Johannes Vermeer, an attempt is made to develop a new definition of the style.