Welcome back to the Friday Afternoon Challenge! Today: “Say Cheese!”
Smiles are hard for painters to catch on canvas. Here are some famous ones that were captured by renowned artists. Who painted what?
AND: cheating and then “guessing” is unwelcome here and unfair to other DUers. Don’t do it.
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She is the matron of the von Fram family, ancestors of the Framm air filter fortune.
Surprisingly, the von Fram's invented air filters for internal combustion engines nearly two centuries before the engines themselves were invented.
Not having anything to do with the air filters, they wore them around their necks as ornaments.
#1, Franz Hals
#4, I know it, I know it!!! 
his is the only distinctive style I recognize. I may hazard a guess on a couple of others.
Why is a classical god, Bacchus, partying with a group of contemporary Spanish peasants? Why is he crowning the kneeling soldier while glancing out the picture to the left? What has he seen? Why do the two men next to him smile as though mugging for a camera? How can Bacchus hold the wine so still that there is no ripple on its surface? Scholars have argued these points for more than a century but without the crucial fact Steven Orso revealed in 1993 they could make no headway.
Orso's discovery that seventeenth-century Spaniards believed that Bacchus had visited Spain and had become its first ruler explains why Philip IV was so interested in the subject. It also explains, even more significantly, how Velazquez would have identified with the central figure both as god of wine (alcohol stimulates the imagination) and Spain's first monarch who was both royal and divine. The divine Spanish king, the original king, however simple he may appear in the image, was the perfect symbol for Velazquez's own purified soul as Spain's greatest master, the rank the still-young artist clearly aspired to.
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http://www.everypainterpaintshimself.com/article/velazquezs_bacchus_c.1628-9
These are tougher than I expected!
but fun to play!
IMO, it would have been a better painting without Bacchus. But I guess it's good to be the King! 
I knew I'd seen this before, but I didn't have a clue about the artist or title. So I just started searching--and almost missed it when an image of the whole work came up because I was looking for the detail.
of the cycle of stories of the Holy Cross.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francesco,_Arezzo#The_frescoes_of_Legend_of_the_True_Cross
I found this one by googling classical painting "man with wooden beam" which gave me one of Piero della Francesca's other works, "Hercules". That aha moment, recognizing his style, took me quickly to the answer.
I really like the way he depicted Hercules and it tickles me that my "wooden beam" google took me to it.
It was hard for me to find anything in English that actually reviewed the True Cross painting and I still haven't managed to find a page that shows all of Piero's frescos located at that Basilica of San Francesco.
the corner where Hercules used to be. After reading more about that painting, I don't think that the Italians want to claim it, even tho they are now proudly celebrating Piero della Francesca and his extremely small body of work. I read at a couple of places that it may be considered his "self portrait", the wooden beam his paint brush.
http://www.casasantapia.com/art/pierodellafrancesca/hercules.htm
You are so lucky to get to go on such a fantastic trip, take it easy, but have a blast!
I was counting on learning the answers after you solved them.
sprawled on the couch watching the Buckeyes getting whupped, but good. (Yay!)
I will continue my investigation after I slave in the kitchen for a few, listening to the sweet strains of Don and Phil.
In the meantime, my Rumanian rheumatologist wants me to "walk in the forest" (as he so charmingly puts it) with a cane to simulate cobblestones and toughen me up but has also offered injections before I leave...dunno if I'll do that...
Walking Piero's Trail was once something doughty Englishmen and women in stout shoes used to do. It is now a bit of "shabby gentility" thing for serious art junkies here, IMO, but I"m still gonna do it...
I'm so GLAD that I was instrumental in your discovering Piero! Now you're in trouble. You'll get hooked on art and there's no telling where that will end...
Searching on him, I found it's title is Portrait of a Man (c. 1475).
and it's in my book from that trip to the Met. Those eyes sure were unmistakable.
Here's the Messina that I saw:
(del Sarto,) a favorite.
Been thinking Holbein for hours!
I can't get my mind off today's loss now, tho. Your "Portrait of a Young Man" reminds me of Phil Everly. 
This was an especially hard challenge. I've dug out a stack of books searching for the last one; I know I've seen it before somewhere, but it has me stumped. The little boy almost looks like an elf or a little devil.
(I thought the first one was a Hals, also. )
touch.
The Everly Brothers were MY generation...they will always be young, in my mind...tough to lose these people...almost like losing our own lives bit by bit...it's hard to take...
Recap of answers posted by solvers (subject, as always, to correction by CTyankee).
1. Rembrandt - Portrait of Baartgen Martens Doomer (1640)
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2. Giovanni Francesco Caroto - Portrait of a Child with a Drawing (c. 1515)
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3. Piero della Francesca - Discovering and Proving of the True Cross (c. 1466)
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4. Antonello da Messina - Portrait of a Man (c. 1475)
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5. Annibale Carracci - Two Boys Laughing (c. 1580-82)
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6. Velazquez - Los Borrachos (The Feast of Bacchus) (c.1628-9)
This was another fun one to do. And compiling the answers from the thread replies helps me (I hope) better remember what I learn here.
Thanks again--and stay warm!