A tavern interior with a bagpiper, a couple dancing, and figures playing cards; and A tavern interior with figures merrymaking and carousing

Details

Jan Miense Molenaer (Haarlem c. 1610-1668)
A tavern interior with a bagpiper, a couple dancing, and figures playing cards; and A tavern interior with figures merrymaking and carousing
both signed (the former strengthened?) 'JMolenaer' ('JM' linked, lower right on the stool)
oil on panel
22¼ x 29 1/8 in. (73.9 x 56.3 cm.)
a pair

Provenance

Sir Timothy Waldo (1711-1780), Hever Castle, Kent, and Clapham, London, and by descent to his daughter,
Jane Waldo (b. 1746), Clapham, who died without issue, and by inheritance to her cousin,
Edmund Wakefield Mead Waldo (1792-1858), 1 June 1830, and by descent to Edmund Waldo Mead Waldo (b. 1829), and by descent to
Edmund Gustavius Meade-Waldo (1865-1934), Hever Castle until 1903 and thereafter at Stonewall Park, Edenbridge, and by inheritance until sold; Sotheby's, London, 10 December 2009, lots 128 and 129 (£44,450 and £54,050 respectively).

Literature

A catalogue of pictures in the Posession of Miss [Jane] Waldo, Clapham, 18th century, no. 7.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Built in the 13th century, Hever Castle in Kent was the seat of the Boleyn family between 1462 and 1539. Anne Boleyn, the second queen of Henry VIII, spent her early youth there, after her father, Thomas Boleyn inherited the Castle in 1505. It later came into the possession of Henry VIII’s fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. The Waldo family owned the Castle for over 150 years, between 1749 and 1903.

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