Jan Miense Molenaer (Haarlem 1609/10-1668)
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Jan Miense Molenaer (Haarlem 1609/10-1668)

A tavern interior with peasants smoking and merry-making

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Jan Miense Molenaer (Haarlem 1609/10-1668)
A tavern interior with peasants smoking and merry-making
signed 'J. Molenaer' (on centre of round table)
oil on panel
14.7/9 x 20 1/8 in. (37.8 x 51 cm.)
Provenance
Presumably by descent to John Vernon of Wherstead Park (1776-1818) and by inheritance at Wherstead Park, to his sister
Lady Harland (née Arethusa Vernon) (1777-1860), wife of Sir Richard Harland, Bt. (d. 1848), Wherstead Park, to her first cousin
Charles Vernon, formerly Charles Jenkin (1790-1863), Wherstead Park, and by inheritance to
Charles Edmund Dashwood (1857-1935), Wherstead Park, Ipswich ('The Dashwood Heirlooms'); Christie's, London, 26 June 1914.
Sir Berkeley Sheffield, 6th Baronet, Normanby Park, Lincolnshire until sold; Christie's, London, 16 July 1943, lot 87 (to Carpenter).
Special notice
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