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G. Meall (active 1675)

Portrait of a gentleman, small full-length, seated on a stone block holding a flute, before a ruined church in a wooded landscape, musical instruments and a score on a stone bench, a gun and a dead duck at his feet

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Price Realized (Set Currency)

    £4,140
  • ($6,941)
  • Sales totals are hammer price plus buyer’s premium and do not reflect costs, financing fees or application of buyer’s or seller’s credits.
Estimate
    £4,000 - £6,000
  • ($6,706 - $10,059)

Sale Information

Sale 6068
Old Master Pictures
16 December 1998
London, King Street

Lot Description

G. Meall (active 1675)
Portrait of a gentleman, small full-length, seated on a stone block holding a flute, before a ruined church in a wooded landscape, musical instruments and a score on a stone bench, a gun and a dead duck at his feet
signed and dated 'GMeall (?)./·1675·' (GM linked), inscribed 'AEtatis./XXXI.' (AE linked) and inscribed with a coat of arms (all lower left)
oil on panel
16 x 12.5/8 in. (40.6 x 32 cm.)

Provenance

Baste de Saint Pallaye; sale, London, 19 March 1930 (sold 50 gns.). Anon. sale [The Property of a Deceased's Estate], Christie's, London, 16 December 1988, lot 93 (sold £3,000).

Literature

E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, etc. VII, 1976, p. 298.

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Lot Notes

Bénézit records the artist as being English, working in 1675, and lists this picture as having been in the Baste de Saint Pallaye sale. When sold in 1988, the sitter and the coat of arms were identified as being of the Uyl family.

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