A wooded landscape with peasants conversing on a road by a canal, a cottage to the left, a town beyond

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Aert van der Neer (Amsterdam ?1603/4-1677)
A wooded landscape with peasants conversing on a road by a canal, a cottage to the left, a town beyond
indistinctly signed with monogram 'AVDN' (lower right)
oil on panel
8¾ x 12 5/8 in. (22.3 x 32.1 cm.)

Provenance

F.W. Arkwright, Albany; Christie's, London, 4 June 1888, lot 67 (7½ gns. to Smith).
Arthur James, M.V.O. (d. 1917), of Coton House, Rugby and 3 Grafton Street, W.1.
His widow, Mrs Arthur James, née Maria Venetia Cavendish-Bentinck; (+) Christie's, London, 15 October 1948, lot 82 (650 gns. to Agnew).

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Lot Essay

Daughter of the collector, George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck, M.P. (1821-1891), Mrs Arthur James owned a notable collection of pictures, many of which were acquired by her husband from her father's posthumous sale in these Rooms in 1891. Widowed in 1917, she was a formidable figure in the social world and on her death in 1948 she bequeathed a number of her most treasured pictures to the National Gallery.

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