* Flemish School. Massacre of the Innocents, first quarter 17th century, oil on canvas, depicting a frenzied scene of warring figures, with infants being torn from outstretched arms in the foreground, and being thrown from a large arched bridge or viaduct in the middle ground, with a vista of a classical city to the right, including a domed basilica and a monumental gateway with drawbridge, heavily darkened in places and with surface wear, including central vertical split with old restoration, several small circular piercings to the canvas, and one or two other small closed tears or marginal defects, old re-lining, mounted on a later 18th or 19th century stretcher with hand-made nails, 117 x 171.5 cm (46 x 67.5 ins)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Acquired by the Bednarski family on the Portobello Road, West London in 1960; by descent to Adriana Dixon (née Bednarski) in 1970; purchased by the present owner in 2019. A large-scale composition in need of cleaning and restoration. The rendering of the architecture, the skilful portrayal of burnished armour, and the addition of earrings on two of the figures, suggest a competent artist such as Pieter van Lint (1609-1690) or his teacher Artus Wolfaerts (1581-1641), both of whom produced large-scale works. Peter Paul Rubens' (1577-1640) renderings of this same subject are well-known.