Word: fabritius
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...catalog interestingly points out, have been done from life. (At the height of the Dutch tulip mania, such rare blooms would never have been cut for a painter; he would have had to draw them in the garden.) One of Rembrandt's more gifted pupils, Carel Fabritius, worked for a time in Delft until he had the spectacularly awful luck to be blown to pieces in the accidental explosion of the town's gunpowder magazine. And then there were minor artists of merely local interest, who are dutifully represented in the show but whom nobody except a specialist would cross...
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