Circle of Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem 1619-1668)

Travellers halting by a forge

细节

Circle of Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem 1619-1668)
Travellers halting by a forge
oil on panel
14 x 16 in. (35.5 x 42 cm.)
stamped on the reverse with what is probably the coat-of-arms of the City of Antwerp

来源

Hugh Munro of Novar (1797-1864); (+) Christie's, London, 1 June 1878, lot 151, as 'P. Wouvermans: A halt of cavaliers and ladies at a farrier's shop' (300 gns. to Butter).

拍品专文

Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar was one of the great collectors of nineteenth-century Britain. Aged thirteen he inherited, along with his family estates at Novar, Scotland, a painting by Murillo, which helped to light a life-long enthusiasm fir art. A friend of Turner, with whom he went sketching in Italy in 1836, and of Landseer, he was well regarded as a painter in his own right - Waagen said that he painted in the style of Greuze - although none of his works are known today. By 1830, Munro was collecting pictures by Turner, Stothard, Bonington and Etty; of Old Masters, he owned works by Claude, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Tiepolo and Watteau. On his death, his collection was inherited by his sister, Mrs. Butler Johnstone, and her husband, and was sold at Christie's in the 1860s and 1870s.