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3/21/2025, 8:37:51 PM
The Smokers by Adriaen Brouwer (c. 1636):
>At the time, smoking was new and controversial. Brouwer included a self-portrait: he is the one turning to face the viewer while lifting a drinking mug and exhaling smoke.
>While the subjects have not been identified with certainty, it has been suggested the person in black and white apparel depicted on the right is painter Jan de Heem and the person in the middle is Brouwer pupil Joos van Craesbeeck.
>At the time, smoking was new and controversial. Brouwer included a self-portrait: he is the one turning to face the viewer while lifting a drinking mug and exhaling smoke.
>While the subjects have not been identified with certainty, it has been suggested the person in black and white apparel depicted on the right is painter Jan de Heem and the person in the middle is Brouwer pupil Joos van Craesbeeck.
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