Evert Jan Boks, You’re Never Better Served Than By Yourself Playful Not particularly regal or grand

Not particularly regal or grand

This late 19th-century oil painting by Scottish artist John White (1851-1933) depicts a boy fishing in a stream with the sea beyond

the roses appear wild as if half a bush has been snipped and planted in a vase

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 17” x 20½” / 44cm x 52cmYear of creation: c

and his prospects were increasingly rosy

Evert Jan Boks, You’re Never Better Served Than By Yourself Playful Not particularly regal or grandThis intimate late 19th century genre scene by Dutch Belgian painter Evert Jan Boks (1838 1914) depicts a maid seated comfortably within a well appointed domestic interior, caught in a private moment of indulgence. It belongs to a period when Boks was at the height of his popularity, exhibiting widely. Reclining in an upholstered armchair, the maid holds a glass of red wine in one hand and a decadent biscuit in the other, her posture relaxed, quietly