AN EXTENSIVE RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH CLASSICAL RUINS AND FIGURES IN THE FOREGROUND

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FOLLOWER OF GEORGE LAMBERT (1700-1765)
AN EXTENSIVE RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH CLASSICAL RUINS AND FIGURES IN THE FOREGROUND
oil on canvas
26 x 42 in. (66 x 106.7 cm.)
In a George II giltwood overmantel mirror frame, circa 1750, with triple divided plate below the painting, the cresting centred by a bearded mask of a man flanked by scrolling acanthus, the sides and apron with palms and rockwork, one plate replaced, regilt, the base of the frame beneath the mirror plate probably slightly reduced in height

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The overall dimensions of this overmantel mirror are: 60 x 54 in. (152.5 x 137 cm.)

Lot Essay

The frame for a landscape painting and overmantel mirror is designed in the George II 'picturesque' fashion, and displays Pan's head, evoking the Arcadian paradise as recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses or Loves of the Gods. The satyr's head, framed in a bubble-fretted cartouche, appears amongst the Roman acanthus that wreaths the Ionic-scrolled pediment. His sacred reeds, recalling his love Syrinx, issue at the sides from husk-festooned and shell-scalloped trusses; while more reeds are tied at the lambrequined base by a cartouche clasp that bears the nature deity's triumphal shell badge. Such water-associated ornament also appears in mirror-frame patterns issued in Thomas Chippendale's, Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd ed., 1762, pl. 187.

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