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Attributed to Egbert van Heemskerck the Elder (Haarlem 1634-1704 London)Quaker Meeting partial signature (lower right), identified on a computer-generated label (affixed to the foam core backing) oil on canvas 30 1/4 x 25 in. (76.5 x 64.0 cm) framed 38 x 33 x 1 1/2 in.FootnotesN.B. The Dutch van Heemskerck family seems to have produced artists over at least two if not three generations. Egbert van Heemskerck the Elder was a painter in Haarlem, influenced by Adriaen Brouwer and David Teniers His son, Egbert the Younger, emigrated from Haarlem to London, where he enjoyed popularity and painted often in the style of his father. In her blog from the Library of the Society of Friends, where a work similar to this one is illustrated, Linda Murgatroyd of the Quaker Arts Network wrote, "Some of the earliest depictions of Quaker meetings for worship were by Egbert van Heemskerk (1634/5-1704), a Dutchman who painted scenes of ordinary life in the Rembrandt tradition. Heemskerk was not a Quaker, but something drew him to make several oil paintings of meetings for worship, mainly in the last two decades of the 17th century...These early meetings appear fairly chaotic: they are often in homes or taverns, and people from all social classes are standing or sitting wherever they can. All of them feature a woman standing and speaking – which of course was heretical in the view of most Christians of the day, but signaled Friends' belief that all people could be in direct communion with God." (1) 1. https://quakerstrongrooms.org/2013/09/02/artists-inspired-by-worship/