Courtyard with a Farrier shoeing a Horse Size:extra large Young David holds the impaled

Young David holds the impaled head of the Philistine giant and marches in front of a general riding a white horse

highlighted by the sudden interval created

During the recent conservation of the painting

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

Courtyard with a Farrier shoeing a Horse Size:extra large Young David holds the impaledWouwermans was the son of one artist (Pauwels), and brother to two more (Pieter and Johannes, both of whom seem to have been subsumed into their more talented brother's studio). The return of Pieter van Laer, (Il Bamboccio) from Italy to Haarlem in 1638 seems to have caught the young Wouwermans at a seminal moment (he joined the Haarlem Guild in 1640). The story, told by Houbraken, that Wouwermans acquired sketches and notebooks of Van Laer's after