Boy with a Flagon and a Bird's Nest Size:large His reputation remained exceptionally high

His reputation remained exceptionally high throughout the 18th century and into the 19th: when Dulwich's founders

whether true or not

drowned tragically in a Venetian canal in 1642

Burke proposed that it might be a replica

London and was for a long time attributed to him

Boy with a Flagon and a Bird's Nest Size:large His reputation remained exceptionally highGudlaugsson's attribution to De Moor (on photograph mount, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague) is supported by the presence of a De Moor signature on a comparable child study of a boy playing with a puppy, in which the model appears to be the same (sold Sotheby's Colonnade, 16 19 March 1993, lot 99).