Christopher Brown’s monograph on this artist connects the subject of a major painting to the name of a silk merchant appearing in the top right above a trompe-l’oeil nail in an earlier portrait. A 2004 restoration revealed the legs of another soldier under the arch in the background of a painting by this artist that depicts a small black dog next to a resting guard. The anamorphic appearance of a church suggests that a painting by this artist was intended for viewing in a (*) perspective box. This portraitist of Abraham de Potter included a viol in the stall on the left of a cityscape of his hometown. Though many of this artist's works were lost when he died in a gunpowder store's explosion, his surviving works include a painting of a blue container with two wooden half-rings, to the upper of which the title animal is chained. For 10 points, what student of Rembrandt painted The Goldfinch? ■END■
ANSWER: Carel Pietersz Fabritius [or Karel Faber] (Brown suggests that Fabritius may have painted The Goldfinch, or Het puttertje, for Abraham de Potter, whose surname was also spelled de Putter; the other paintings referenced are the Portrait of Abraham de Potter, The Sentry, and his View of Delft.)
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