This jewel-like Dutch painting shows an army trumpeter blowing his horn while the men and women around him, decidedly oblivious, continue to go about their daily business. This is the work of Anthonie [Stevers] Palamedes, (b Delft, 1601; d Amsterdam, 1673), a Dutch painter who studied in Delft with the court painter Michiel van Mierevelt.
Palamedes joined the Delft Guild of St Luke in 1621 and was a genre, portrait and still-life painter who was best known for his paintings of musical scenes and merry groups of soldiers. A favorite subject of Palamedes was the trumpeter and he painted the theme several times.
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