Dutch and Old Master Paintings 

Location: Materials and Masters

In 1905 a group of Dutch paintings from the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries, together with copies of Old Masters, was given to the Beaney by Gerard Frederick de Zoete, with a further bequest in 1932. They were from a much larger collection of European art made by his father, Samuel Herman de Zoete.

All the paintings donated by De Zoete can be seen at http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings. 

Items on display include:

Virgin and Child
Bernaert van Orley
Oil on panel
Seascape
Attributed to Hendrik Jacobsz Dubbels
Oil on panel

Copy by an unknown artist after a Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael, believed to be a self portrait. Raphael's early-sixteenth century portrait was in the Czartoryski Museum collections in Krakow, Poland, until looted by Germans during the Second World War, and has remained untraced.