Robbert Knight, 17th Century

Hawking Accoutrements

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Robbert Knight, 17th Century
Hawking Accoutrements
signed and dated 'R: Knight: F:/Ao: 1670-' (upper right)
oil on canvas
30 x 26 in. (78.1 x 66 cm.)

Exhibited

E. Gemar-Koeltzsch, Hollndische Stillebenmacher, 1995, p. 560, illustrated.

Lot Essay

The artist, who may have been English, is recorded as working in Dordrecht in 1669. Two oil paintings of hunting accoutrements by Knight are recorded: one signed and dated 'R.Knight 1669' was sold in Rome in 1907, and another picture is recorded in a Dordrecht inventory in 1691.

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