That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 02, 2022

Most of Mr. Gildemeester guests admired the paintings in his collection, but Wilhelm was really into that chair back.

/// Said Jan Jansz to de Lelie, “It’s true.

I collect works of art, old and new.

Go ahead, paint my gallery,

but I’ll garnish your salary

if you paint works I own, I will sue.”

“I still don’t believe women can paint.”

One thousand duckets for the painting and five thousand for the artist; plus my commission.

while the gallery crowd fawned over Hortence’s latest masterpiece, Walter was leaning in to finish today’s Wordle!

Flashback to the shabby chair scene in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. “Yes, I am nouveau riche—but it’s the riche that counts.”

When you said she was in oil This is not what I imagined.

Try to get his best side, madam.

“This foolish woman here is looking for an artistic rendering of various breeds of dogs playing cards. What nonsense! What galleries would ever sell anything like that? They would be ridiculed, ostracized and go bankrupt if they tried!”

“I really needed to re-plaster the walls, but it turned out cheaper to cover them over with this ‘Starving Artist’ trash! And who knows, some philistine might actually buy something…Some tobacco-grower colonial no doubt.

“On second thought Adriaan, I will take the painting of the bulldogs playing poker!”

Yes, I too was misled when she invited me up to see her art collection.

Remind me. Where will you hang the black light again?

“Bump my elbow one more time mister and this elbow will bump your nuts.”

It keeps out of the bars and alleys, but we’re running out of wall space

In an Amsterdam atelier/

The wealthy while hours away/

Scrutinizing the art/

Then they’ll blithely depart:/

And, if they buy something, won’t pay..

I am trying to teach her to paint masterpieces like mine, but she is infatuated with painting nude men, and it’s obvious she has actually never seen one.

What’s with the guy and the chair?

Henri, the picture she is painting now isn’t going to fit in the space above the door. I suspect your footmen will be rearranging the walls once again.

“He’s already put Km out of business.”

“What’s nieuw, Amsterdam?”

“This woman asks ‘if we would do body painting on her for money.’ I suspect she is a foreigner unfamiliar with our language, asking for a full-length portrait. But if not, send my wife a message I will be a bit late tonight.”

Hey, guy in the lower right- don’t sit that close to the TV; you’ll ruin your eyes!

“This is my Paint by Numbers collection.”

Guy in the red must not know much about art if he’s admiring the back of the painting. (Or is he just an easel fan.)

Hey fancy pants, quit looking over my shoulder!

The Art Gallery of Jan Gildemeester: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by Adriaan de Lelie" site=https://commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string 1,198, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (best viewed using Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3022 (November 2, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 5 works, at least in part by this artist (4 solely by him), have been used here. The July 7, 2022, strip has the prior.

De kunstgalerij van Jan Gildemeester Jansz, 1794-1795

“If he is going to stand there picking his nose, then by God I’m going to paint him picking his nose!”

Last time Melcher lets Pastis sub for him.

Her experiment is working. The lower her neckline, the more people arrive to watch her … paint.

How low will she go? They are already calling her a tart!