17C Women with their Families but Few seem Happy...

1605 Jorge Manuel Theotokopoulos (1578-1631) (El Greco's Son) The Family of El Greco

c 1615 Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) Self-Portrait with Parents, Brothers, & Sisters

1616 Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) The Artist with the family of his Father in Law Adam van Noort

1620 Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish Baroque painter, 1577-1640) Lady Arundel with her Train

1628 After Gerard van Honthorst (1590–1656) George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, Catherine Manners, Duchess of Buckingham, children, Mary & George

Pieter Codde (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1599-1678) A Man & Woman & Boy Detail

1629 Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Deborah Kip and her Children

1636 Petrus Troueil Sir Francis Ottley (1600–1649), and Family

c 1639 Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Rubens with His Wife Helena Fourment and Their Son Peter Paul

1640 After artist Robert Walker, Alexander Popham, his wife Letitia Care, and Children Essex, Letitia, and Anne

Barent Fabritius (Dutch artist, 1624-1673) Willem van der Helm with his Wife and Son

1640 Cornelius Johnson (Flemish-born English Baroque Era Painter, 1593-1661) Lord Arthur Capel of Hadham (1608-1649) & wife Elizabeth Morrison & Family

1640s Gonzales Coques (Flemish artist, c 1614–1684) A Family Group

1641 Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, with his wife and daughter

1647 Gonzales Coques (Flemish artist, c 1614–1684) A Family Group in a Landscape

1650-55 Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685) The De Goyer Family & Painter

1650 Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) Portrait of a Family

1653-54 Gerard ter Borch (1617-1681) The van Moerkerken Family

1655-60 Gonzales Coques (Flemish artist, c 1614–1684) A Family Group

1659-60 Mary Beale (née Cradock) (26 March 1633 - 1699) was an English portrait painter with husband and son both named Charles.

1660 Johan le Ducq (1629-1676) The Loth Family

1660 Juan Bautista Martinez del Mazo (1610-1667) The Artist’s Family

1661 Peter Thijs (1624-1677) Philips van de Werve and His Wife

1663 Jakob Ochtervelt (1635-1710) Dutch Family Portrait

1664 Daniel Schultz II (1615-1683) Family Portrait

1664 Gonzales Coques (Flemish artist, c 1614–1684) A Family Group

1664 Gonzales Coques (Flemish artist, c 1614–1684) Gentleman with his 2 Daughters

1665-70 Abraham van den Temple (1620-1672) Family Portrait

1670 Jean Nocret (1617-1672) Family of Louis XIV Château de Versailles

1673 John Michael Wright (1617-1694) Family of Sir Robert Vyner

1675 Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Jan Jacobsz Hinlopen and His Family

1695 John Baptist de Medina (Southern Netherlandish-English painter, 1660-1710) John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale (1625-1697), posing with his wife Jane & children & children's spouses.

18C Women Around the World

Costumes de Differents Pays, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810) c 1797 Hand-Colored Engraving from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

By the end of the 18C, worldwide exploration & colonization by Europeans were fairly commonplace, enabling the late 18C & 19C public to catch a glimpse of the clothing & customs of other peoples.

17C Women Sewing Indoors

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) A Woman Spinning

Gerard Terborch (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-1681) Woman Sewing

Godfried Schalcken (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1643-1706) Girl Threading a Needle

Willem van Mieris (Dutch painter, 1662-1747) The Spinner

Quiringh Gerritsz van Brekelenkam (Dutch artist, c 1622-1668) Reading Woman at the Spinning Wheel 1659

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish painter, 1599–1660), The Needlewoman c 1640

Johannes van der Aack (Dutch artist, 1636-c1680+) Old Woman Seated Sewing 1655

 Judith Leyster (Dutch artist, 1609-1660) The Proposition 1631 Sewing or Writing?

18C Women Around the World

Costumes de Differents Pays, by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810) c 1797 Hand-Colored Engraving from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

By the end of the 18C, worldwide exploration & colonization by Europeans were fairly commonplace, enabling the late 18C & 19C public to catch a glimpse of the clothing & customs of other peoples.

Women Bathing Outdoors in 17C & 18C

 Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch artist, 1606-1669) A Woman Bathing in a Stream Detail

 Cornelis van Poelenburgh (Dutch artist, 1594-1667) Women Bathing in Landscape

 

 Johan van Haensbergen (Dutch artist, 1642-1705) A Classical Landscape with Women Bathing

 Jan Frans van Bloemen (Flemish artist, 1652-1749) A Classical Landscape with Ladies Bathing near a Fountain

Attr to Pieter van Bloemen (Flemish artist, 1657-1720) A Riverside Town with High Embankment Walls, Figures Bathing and Traders with their Horses on the Mudflats

 Nicolas Lancret (French artist, 1690-1743) Women Bathing

 Jean-Baptiste Pater (French artist, 1695–1736) Bathing Party in a Park 1730s

 Joseph Frans Nollekens (Flemish artist, 1706-1748) Park Scene with Ladies Bathing

 After Richard Wilson (British artist, 1713-14 - 1782) Lake Nemi with Figures Bathing

Georg Heinrich Hergenröder (German artist, 1736-1794) Ladies Bathing

 François Boucher (French painter, 1703–1770) Bathers in a Stream

William Taverner (English artist, 1703-1772) Women Bathing

Benjamin West (American-born British painter, 1738-1820) The Bathing Place at Ramsgate 1788 detail