1.   ...the centenary of the death of the Dutch painter, Vincent Van Gogh.

2.   Dutch painters were masters of pictorial illusionism, but their goal was to produce solid, buyable, guilder-value illusions.

3.   His art, including the jocular side of it, owed a debt to Dutch painters like Jan Steen.

4.   Most Dutch painters of the period knocked off a painting a week, but Vermeer was good for two or three a year at most.

5.   The painting was labeled as the work of Gerard van Honthorst, a Dutch painter who was influenced by Caravaggio.

6.   There were a few seconds of silence, so she spelled out the name and added that he was a noted Dutch painter.

7.   Mariet Westermann, author of several books on Dutch painters, tracked down the decorative objects, all from the same period as the paintings.

8.   The work of art was tucked away in a leather pouch along with several watercolours by less reputed Dutch painters.