june 5

A Jester Holding a Flute, 1623

PETER WTEWAEL (June 5, 1609)

June 5 is the birthday of Dutch Golden Age painter PETER WTEWAEL (1609-1660).

Wtewael "was born in Utrecht, son of the Dutch painter and engraver Joachim Wtewael and brother to the painter Johan Wtewael. According to the RKD he is known as a follower of Caravaggio. He specialized in painting kitchen scenes and mythological figures." (Wikipedia)

Kitchen Scene with the Parable of the Feast

Card Players

Christ Preaching in the Temple

this day in history

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: On June 5, 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.