Willem de Heusch (c. 1618-1692)

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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Willem de Heusch (c. 1618-1692)

An Italianate Landscape with Peasants on a Path by a Waterfall

27 5/8 x 41 3/8in. (70.2 x 105cm.)

Provenance

Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston (1739-1802), by whom acquired in Dublin, 1784 (22½gns.) (ms. notebook formerly at Broadlands, now misplaced, but recorded in a photocopy among the papers of Sir Ellis Waterhouse).
His son Henry, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (d. 1865), and by inheritance through William Cowper-Temple, 1st Lord Mount Temple.

Lot Essay

The 2nd Viscount Palmerston's activities as a picture collector are reviewed by B. Connell, Portrait of a Whig Peer, London, 1957, passim and by F. Russell, A Connoisseur's Taste: Paintings at Broadlands I, Country Life, 171, 1982, pp.224-6

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