Details
Ferdinand-Philipp de Hamilton (Brussels 1664-1750 Vienna)
A cat seated on a wooden table with dead birds
signed 'F. De. Hamilton.' (lower right)
oil on canvas, unframed
28¼ x 23½ in. (71.8 x 59.7 cm.), including an addition of 2¾ in. (7 cm.) to the upper edge
Provenance
Sophia of the Palatinate (1630-1714), wife of the Elector Ernst August of Hanover (1629-1698), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, listed in the 1709 inventory as either no. 346 or 354, hanging in the Orangerie of Herrenhausen Palace, and by descent through her son
King George I of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire (1660-1727), to
King William IV of the United Kingdom and Hanover (1765-1837), and then by inheritance with the Kingdom of Hanover to his nephew
King Ernst August of Hanover, 1st Duke of Cumberland (1771-1851), by whom bequeathed to his son
King George V of Hanover, 2nd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1819-1878), listed in the 1844 inventory as transferred to the Georgengarten Palace in Hanover, no. 6, until the annexation by Prussia in 1866 and then possibly at Landschaftsstrasse 3 in Hanover (its pendant being no. 418 in the 1876 inventory); in the so-called Cumberland-Galerie, no. 172 (in the 1891 inventory); and on loan to the Provinzialmuseum in Hanover (in the 1905 inventory) until sold; Fideikommiss Galerie des Gesamthauses Braunschweig-Luneburg, Cassirer and Helbing, Berlin, 24 April 1926, lot 62.
Literature
Inventaire ou Specification fait en l'année 1709. De tout ce que S.A.E.ce Madame L'Electrice de Bronsuic et Lunebourg doit avoir et reçevoir..., 1709, manuscipt, State Archive of Hannover [dep. 103, XXIV, no. 2487], l. 17 or 18, no. 546 or 354.
Verzeichniss der Bildhauerwerke und Gemälde welche sich in den Königlich Hannoverschen Schlössern und Gebäuden befinden, Hannover, 1844, p. 193, no. 6.
Verzeichniss der zum Vermögen des Königs Georg gehörenden Gemälde welche sich in dem Hause Nr. 3 der Landschaftsstrasse zu Hannover befinden, Hannover, 1876, p. 75, no. 418.
Katalog der zum Ressort der Königlichen Verwaltungs-Kommisssion gehörigen Sammlung von Gemälden, Skulpturen und Alterthümern im Provinzial-Museumsgebäude an der Prinzenstrasse Nr. 4 zu Hannover, Hannover, 1891, p. 113, no. 172.
Katalog der zur Fideikommiss-Galerie des Gesamthauses Braunschweig und Lüneburg gehörigen Sammlung von Gemälden und Skulpturen im Provinzial-Museum zu Hannover, Hannover, 1905, p. 58, no. 135.
Exhibited
Hanover, Provinzialmuseum, on loan, until 1926, no. 62 (according to a label on reverse)
Special notice
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