The Dead Artists Gallery Presents “In the Dutch style, please”

“In the Dutch style, please.” The industrial revolution was in full swing and newly-rich, upwardly mobile middle class homes on both sides of the Atlantic demanded decorative art reflecting the taste and gentility of earlier generations. The dark, somber canvases of 17th. and 18th. century Holland relieved by bright points of realistic fruit in profusion filled the bill! “Still-Life with Mixed Fruit “, O/C 18 x 22 in original watergilt frame c. 1890-1900, Signed illegibly L/L and bearing the Bruges gallery stamp on stretcher, verso, $495. “In the Dutch style, please!”