拍品專文
The present lot is an unpublished work by Keirincx which formed part of a series commissioned by Charles I.
The royal inventories record at Oatlands Palace a set of ten views described in two groups: 'Two landschapes afer ye life. being Kings houses. of Scotland, done by Carings.' and '8 pictures of Kings houses & townes in Scotland done by Carings.', and at Whitehall 'ffour landskipp pecees of one Bigneess Being the Nordron towne paynted.'.
The execution of these views can be precisely dated, as King Charles I rented in July 1639 a studio in Orchard Street, Westminster, 'for the use & dwellings of Cornelius van Pollenburgh and Alexander Keyrinx two Dutchmen'. As John Harris, loc. cit., points out 'Keirincx's evidence is the earliest after Sir Ambrose Cave's surveys of 1562 of a conscious programme to record royal palaces for, presumably, their architectural merit'. Both groups of pictures from Oatlands Palace were later sold to the dealer Remigius van Leemput, the first on 3 May 1650 for #7, the second on 3 May 1651 for #26. Only one of these has hitherto been rediscovered - 'Falkland Palace, Fife', now in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (Harris, op. cit., pl.19); the four views of northern towns formerly at Whitehall have, however, all come to light - 'Richmond Castle, Yorkshire' at the Yale Center for British Art, Yale (ibid., pl.20 and colour pl.I), two paintings offered in these Rooms 11 April 1986, lots 2 and 3, 'A View of Pontefract, Yorkshire' now in the Tate Gallery, London, and 'A View of an English Royal Castle', and the present picture.
Presumably Keirincx was employed to accompany a royal progress to the North, making sketches of specific sites in Yorkshire along the way
The royal inventories record at Oatlands Palace a set of ten views described in two groups: 'Two landschapes afer ye life. being Kings houses. of Scotland, done by Carings.' and '8 pictures of Kings houses & townes in Scotland done by Carings.', and at Whitehall 'ffour landskipp pecees of one Bigneess Being the Nordron towne paynted.'.
The execution of these views can be precisely dated, as King Charles I rented in July 1639 a studio in Orchard Street, Westminster, 'for the use & dwellings of Cornelius van Pollenburgh and Alexander Keyrinx two Dutchmen'. As John Harris, loc. cit., points out 'Keirincx's evidence is the earliest after Sir Ambrose Cave's surveys of 1562 of a conscious programme to record royal palaces for, presumably, their architectural merit'. Both groups of pictures from Oatlands Palace were later sold to the dealer Remigius van Leemput, the first on 3 May 1650 for #7, the second on 3 May 1651 for #26. Only one of these has hitherto been rediscovered - 'Falkland Palace, Fife', now in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (Harris, op. cit., pl.19); the four views of northern towns formerly at Whitehall have, however, all come to light - 'Richmond Castle, Yorkshire' at the Yale Center for British Art, Yale (ibid., pl.20 and colour pl.I), two paintings offered in these Rooms 11 April 1986, lots 2 and 3, 'A View of Pontefract, Yorkshire' now in the Tate Gallery, London, and 'A View of an English Royal Castle', and the present picture.
Presumably Keirincx was employed to accompany a royal progress to the North, making sketches of specific sites in Yorkshire along the way