Gallery of Old & New Masters Schwerin

The dukes of Mecklenburg assembled one of the most prestigious European collections of Dutch and Flemish paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. They acquired artworks from old masters who are famous worldwide today, such as Rubens, Rembrandt, Jan Brueghel the Elder and Frans Hals. One particular treasure is The Sentry by Carel Fabritius, who established Delftian luminous painting and whose known surviving oeuvre consists of just 13 paintings around the world.
Among the most beautiful genre paintings are The Family Concert by Frans van Mieris, The Lovesick Woman by Jan Steen and the paintings by the “fine painter” Gerard Dou. Other remarkable pieces include the superbly painted boys‘ heads by Frans Hals and the five paintings by Paulus Potter, the still lifes by such brilliant painters as Pieter Claesz and Willem Claesz Heda as well as Dutch maritime painting represented by such names as Simon de Vlieger and Ludolf Backhuysen. The collection of works by Dutch master painters is further enhanced with pieces from the 18th to the early 20th century.