"Bathsheba Makes an Appeal to David"

Govert (or Govaert) Teuniszoon Flinck (25 January 1615 – 2 February 1660) was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age. For many years Flinck laboured on the lines of Rembrandt, following that master's style in all the works which he executed between 1636 and 1648. It was after his time with Rembrandt that he took up the material of blue paper for drawings.  With aspirations as a history painter, however, he looked to the swelling forms and grand action of Peter Paul Rubens, which led to many commissions for official and diplomatic painting.

His first subject picture is the Blessing of Jacob (1638), in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. It is thoroughly Rembrandtesque in effect as well as in vigour of touch and warmth of flesh tints.