>>> Three lutenists(!), but who is the painter? And when? >>> http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/LutePics/uusia/kukalie.jpg >> There are 4. > > Well, there is also a group of 3 in a group of 4. > Actually there are 4 different groups of 3's there! ;-) What are you talking about? There are 4 lutenists.
> But who is the painter? And when and where? The costumes perhaps > point to the Netherlands at about the last half of the 16th century? > Or does it really? A Calvinist country? Are you kidding? Looks English. RT