LATE 18TH CENTURY

European prints were also sent to China to be copied as 'back paintings' on glass, and the size usually remained the same. The print used as a model for the painting in the present lot is not known, but it is almost certainly Dutch. The landscape, the buildings and the figures all point to a mid-17th Century original, and similar scenes are known by Jan van Almeloveen (1652-1680) and Allaert van Everdingen (1621-1675).