Chloë Ashby

The haunting power of 17th-century Dutch art

Too often dismissed as leaden or trivial, Dutch art is a ‘fathomless world, with a strangeness to arouse and disturb’, says Laura Cumming

‘The Goldfinch’, by Carel Fabritius. [Getty Images]

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