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Robert Walker
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Robert Walker: Henry Ireton Edward Winslow, detail of an oil painting by Robert Walker, 1651; in the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Mass.
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Robert Walker

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  • Judith Leyster: Self-Portrait
    Western painting
    / The Spanish Netherlands

    …the portraitists William Dobson and Robert Walker, in the troubled years 1641–60 the only painters of note active in England, reveal a considerable debt to him. Jacob Jordaens also worked as an assistant in Rubens’s workshop in Antwerp and took it over after his death. His handling of the Rubensian…

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    …the portraitists William Dobson and Robert Walker, in the troubled years 1641–60 the only painters of note active in England, reveal a considerable debt to him. Jacob Jordaens also worked as an assistant in Rubens’s workshop in Antwerp and took it over after his death. His handling of the Rubensian…

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