They did a great job designing my article in the current The Artist Magazine! #lacepainting #theArtistMagazine

Is it all about the goatee, or the ruff? I vote the insanely wide lace ruff 😍 A miniature by Nicholas Hilliard of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1585. Just 48x41mm! #arthistodons #lacepainting #earlymodern #histodons

Lace detail of Frans Hals' Portrait of a Man, 1635. Painted boldly, but carefully, with dark paint on top of dried white paint, depicting the negative space (the holes) of the lace. Showing large, probably bobbin lace collar. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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Gloriously fine lace in this portrait of Catharina Fourmenois by Salomon Mesdach, 1619,
at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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Lace and pearls detail from a portrait by Van der Helst, 1644
- National Gallery London -
the master of über-soft bobbin lace #lacepainting