The Hague and the Lineage of Paint The Hague, 1740. A child is baptized into a world where art is a family trade. Franciscus Xaverius Xavery enters a lineage of creators, the son of Jan Baptist Xavery. The brush is not merely a tool here; it is an inheritance. He grows up surrounded by the technical demands of the Dutch Republic, learning the language of pigment and light through the bloodline. His early training begins under the watch…