# The Twins Clara and Aelbert de Bray [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BRAY, Salomon de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary The Twins Clara and Aelbert de Bray c. 1646 Oil on canvas National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh Salomon de Bray is usually remembered for his classical compositions - he was selected to paint large decorated fields for the Oranjezaal at Huis ten Bosch. Yet his double portrait of his nephew's twins puts him squarely in the tradition of Dutch naturalistic portraiture. The chiaroscuro effect and the colour scheme of the painting are reminiscent of Rembrandt's work of the 1640s, but stylistic slots are the last thing to come to mind when confronted by this touching image of two tiny babies wearing what are presumably their baptismal lockets lying in a richly carved gilded Baroque shell-like cradle. ## Related artworks - [Book and Picture Shop]() - [Design for sculpture]() - [Eliezer and Rebecca]() - [Eliezer and Rebecca]() - [Eliezer and Rebecca]() - [Eliezer and Rebecca]() - [Jael, Deborah and Barak]() - [Joseph Receives His Father and Brothers in Egypt]() - [Judith Delivering the Head of Holofernes]() - [Madonna with Angels and Shepherds]() - [Odysseus and Circe]() - [Triumphal Procession with Musicians]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()