Boy with a Flagon and a Bird's Nest Size:large Giltay (letter on file

Giltay (letter on file

His reputation remained exceptionally high throughout the 18th century and into the 19th: when Dulwich's founders

drowned tragically in a Venetian canal in 1642

indicating that he delayed completion until the flowers he wished to paint came into season

Boy with a Flagon and a Bird's Nest Size:large Giltay (letter on fileGudlaugsson's attribution to De Moor (on photograph mount, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague) is supported by the presence of a De Moor signature on a comparable child study of a boy playing with a puppy, in which the model appears to be the same (sold Sotheby's Colonnade, 16 19 March 1993, lot 99).