Two Child Angels Gainsborough A comparable composition by Calraet

A comparable composition by Calraet is in the Rijksmuseum

Probably an early copy of a lost work by Murillo

Keeper of Pictures to George III

but his special status - he was already an established master in his own right - is demonstrated by the fact that he did not scruple to 'improve' the composition to suit his own ideas

is inspired by Raphael's fresco of the same subject in the Vatican Logge and shows the influence of Annibale Carracci and Domenichino

Two Child Angels Gainsborough A comparable composition by CalraetProbably a partial copy (with the addition of the crown of thorns) from Murillo's altarpiece of the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne in the church of Adanero, near Avila.