This portrait, located in National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, had previously been considered to be that of a young man. This is largely on account of the dagger which is held in the sitter’s hands and the belief that no single Italian Renaissance🎨 portrait of a woman ever showed the sitter holding a weapon.

La natura morta in Olanda risponde a precise esigenze del pubblico borghese, principale committente di lavori artistici.

Come sapete già da tempo, io non ho nessuna intenzione di svelarvi se le opere ancora non attribuite a me in maniera definitiva, le abbia realizzate io oppure no. Mi piace seguire tutti i ragioname…

Above: Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981), "Blue Hyacinths in a Winter Landscape". Above: Milton Avery (1885-1965), "White Pitcher", 1946 Above: Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), "Still Life", 1951 Above: Andrew Lord (b. 1950), "Swallowing", 1998 Above: Objects on shelves in our Studio. Above: William Nicholson (1872-1949), "The Trailed Jug", 1917. Nicholson's son is the artist Ben Nicholson. Ben Nicholson married Winifred Nicholson, one of my favorite painters, whose "Blue Hyacinths" started this post. Above: William Nicholson (1872-1949), "Scottish Still Life" Above: This is by William Nicholson's son, Ben Nicholson (1894-1982), "1943-45, St. Ives, Cornwall". Ben Nicholson is better known for his abstract work. Above: Harold Gilman (1876-1919), "Still Life of White Cup, Saucer, and Jug on a Table", 1917-18. Above: Anne Redpath (1895-1965), "The Blue Tablecloth", 1940 Above: William Scott (1913-1989) Still Life, Collection National Museums, Northern Ireland. Above: Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), still life, 1962 Above: Nicolas de Stael (1914-1955), "Atelier Vert"1954. Above: Alec Soth (b. 1969) from his project "Sleeping by the Mississippi" Above: Georges Braque (1882-1963) "The Yellow Napkin", 1935. Above: Georges Braque (1882-1963) "Still Life with Lemons and Pipe", 1950. Interesting to see how Braques style evolved in the 15 years between these two paintings. Above: Alice Neel (1900-1984), "Still Life (Breakfast Table)", 1965. Above: Mary Fedden (1915-2012), "Still Life with Amaryllis and Fruit on a Chair", 1980 Above: Sir Matthew Smith, "Lilies in a Vase", 1914 Above: Robert M. Kulicke (1924-2007), "Vase of Flowers". Kulicke is best known for his work as a framer. He is the inventor of the simple plexiglass box frame, and a welded aluminum frame that allowed consumers to frame art work for themselves. In 1951 he opened Kulicke Frames, becoming friendly with abstract expressionists like Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline, who asked him to design thin frames they thought suited their work. He started painting his small still life subjects after being exposed to 300 works by Morandi that he was commissioned to make frames for. The small Morandi paintings of bottles gave him the confidence to work on small paintings with modest subjects. You can read more in this obituary written by Roberta Smith for the NY Times. Above: William Coldstream (1908-1987), Window in Hampstead, 1981 Above: From the book "Bringing Nature Home", by Ngoc Minh Ngo, arrangements by Nicolette Owen of the Little Flower School in Brooklyn. Above: Claudio Bravo (1936-2011), "Carafes", 1987, oil on canvas. Above: Alex Katz (b. 1927), "Still Life With Pitcher", 1950s Above: Charles Mahoney, British Surrealist, "Still Life With Snakes and Ladder Board". Above: Charles Mahoney, "Still Life With Landscape", 1959. Above: Jonas Wood (b. 1977) Above: Jonas Wood (b. 1977) Above: Haim Steinbach (b. 1944), "Oz", 2009. Plastic laminated wood shelf, mount rabbit, rubber dog chew. Above: Haim Steinbach (b. 1944), "Global Proportions", 2007 Above: Piero Golia (b. 1974), "Yellow Barbeque Cube", 2005 Above: William Scott (1913-1989), "Frying Pan and Eggs", 1949 Above: William Scott (1913-1989), "Table Still Life", 1951 Above: Photo by William Scott (1913-1989), "Still Life in a Frame", 1956 Above: Irving Penn (1917-2009), "Still Life With Onion Skin, New York", 1947 Above: Craigie Horsefield (b. 1949), "Three Garlic Bulbs, Cabbage Leaf", 2003, Dry Print Above: Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), "Two Candles", 1982 Above: Evelyn Hofer, "My Telphone in the Tawaraya Inn Kyoto, Japan", 1985 Above: Francisco de Zubaran (1598-1664), "A Cup of Water and a Rose", 1630 Above: Odilon Redon (1840-1916), "La Coquille", 1912. Above: Milton Avery (1885-1965), "Pink Still Life", 1938. Above: Vanessa Bell "Still Life with Quill Pens", 1948-1950, Bryan Ferry Collection Above: Robert Kulicke (1924-2007), "Zinnias in a Glass Jar", 1985, 10" x 8.5", oil on masonite. Above: Robert Kulicke (1924-2007), "Flowers on a Dark Background", 1960, 8" x 7.25", oil on board. Above: George Leslie Hunter (1877-1931), "The Pink Tablecloth". Above: Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965), "Still Life", 2007-2008 Above: Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965), "Pati", 2007. It looks like a photo of Patti Smith in the background, but according to the Guardian it's Peyton's friend Pati Hertling. Above: From the book "Bringing Nature Home", by Ngoc Minh Ngo, arrangements by Nicolette Owen of the Little Flower School in Brooklyn. Above: Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981), "Nursery Bunch", 1927 Above: Leanne Shapton, from her NY Times blog, "Tuesday Blooms". This is "Dahlias From the Angel Tube Station Flower Stall", London, December 6 2005. Above: S.J. Peploe (1871-1935) "Still Life with Books". Above: Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963), "Vessel", 2008. Plaster, pigment, resin, wood, and steel. Above: Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963), "Untitled, (Colours)", 2002. This is a still life of the negative spaces left in a bookshelf, the spaces that the books don't take up. Above: Unknown Above: Gabriella Soraci, "Three Books", 2008 Above: William Nicholson (1872-1949), "Books and Things", 1920. Above: William Nicholson (1872-1949), "The Silver Casket", 1919 Above: Evelyn Hofer, "Marianne Moore's Gloves", 1983. Above: Edouard Manet (1832-1883), "A Bouquet of Violets", 1872. Above: Pierre Bonnard "Still Life with Plum Pits", 1932 Above: John Bratby (1928-1992), "Still Life With Chip Frier", 1954 Above: Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) Above: George Leslie Hunter (1877-1931), "Still Life, Ginger Jar and Fruit"1920's-30's. Above: Ann Wyeth McCoy (1915-2005), "Yellow Flowers in Vase", 2003. Above: Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981), "Blackthorn and Yew", 1950 Above: Unknown painting, from this post on remodelista. Above: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), "Verre et Pichet", 1944 Above: Patrick Heron, "The Long Table With Fruit", 1949. Above: Odilon Redon (1840-1916) Above: Paul Wonner (1920-2008), "Dutch Still Life With Lemon Tart and Engagement Calendar", 1979. Above: Claes Oldenberg (born 1929), "Pastry Case I", 1961-62 Above: Maira Kalman, "Morlondo and Gariglio", 2011 Above: Maira Kalman, from "The Pursuit of Happiness"blog on the NY Times, January 29th 2009. Above: Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981), "Autumn Flowers on Mantelpiece", 1932. Above: Jonas Wood Above: Henri Matisse, Still Life With Seashell", 1940 Above: From the book "Bringing Nature Home", by Ngoc Minh Ngo, arrangements by Nicolette Owen of the Little Flower School in Brooklyn. Above: Jonas Wood Above and Below: B. Wurtz at Metro Pictures, 2011 Above: Laura Letinsky, "Untitled #5", ( from the To Say It Isn't So series), 2006. Above: Laura Letinsky, "Untitled #92" (from the I Did Not Remember I Had Forgotten series), 2004. Above: Gerhard Richter (born 1932), "Flowers", 1994, oil on canvas.