Using Jan Steen's The Drawing Lesson as an example, explain the educational practice of artists in the seventeenth century.

What will be an ideal response?


The ideal answer should include:
1. Artists spent years in training and apprenticeship to master their craft.
2. Both males and females could be apprenticed under a master artist in a studio.
3. Jan Steen's The Drawing Lesson depicts an artist's studio in which a boy and a young woman are learning the foundations of art from a master artist.
4. This painting also demonstrates how drawing from sculpture and plaster casts was an important part of an apprenticeship, especially for female pupils who were not permitted to work from male nude models.

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What will be an ideal response?

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