Art Museum of Estonia
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The foreign art collection of the Art Museum of Estonia was founded already in the first years
of the museum. In subsequent years, new works have come to the museum mostly as
purchases or donations. The works in the exhibition of the museum are arranged according to
the various schools of different countries.
About 100 paintings attributed to the 16th-18th century masters from the Netherlands school
form the most valuable part of the collection. Among them are the works of art by Pieter
Breughel the Younger, Frans Pourbus the Younger, the workshop of Marten de Vos,
Adriaen van Ostade, Jacob Gerritz. Cuyp, Jan van Kessel, Hans van Essen and others.
There are some examples of German panel painting from the 16th-18th centuries, represented
by the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder, Benjamin Block, Franz Werner von Tamm,
Anton Graff and others. Angelica Kauffmann who in 1760s-1770s worked in London, is the
representative of German late Rococo