The gallery doesn’t know who painted this, but it’s likely a Dutch painter from the middle of the seventeenth century. Although that’s not what amused me about this, it’s just imagining what a modern scene would look like. I do like just how many paintings there are from this period from within Dutch and Flemish taverns. Incidentally, I don’t like the painting’s name of ‘Feast’ given the lack of food, but I suspect that this might be a slight translation issue.
AI comes to the rescue here (and my new caveat of I’m aware of the limitations and challenges of AI, but I like its contribution to knowledge) at modernising the painting. Bringing a guitar wouldn’t go down well in quite a few pubs, but it’s not a scene that would be entirely unrecognisable.