Lot Essay
We are grateful to Fred Meijer, of the RKD, The Hague, for proposing the attribution on the basis of photographs.
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Roses, parrot tulips, thistles, holly and other flowers with a brimstone butterfly on a cartouche with a sculpted angel; and Roses, a Turk-cap lily, narcissi, a parrot tulip and other flowers on a cartouche with a sculpted angel - fragments
Details
Attributed to Jan Philips van Thielen (Mechelen 1618-1667)
Roses, parrot tulips, thistles, holly and other flowers with a brimstone butterfly on a cartouche with a sculpted angel; and Roses, a Turk-cap lily, narcissi, a parrot tulip and other flowers on a cartouche with a sculpted angel - fragments
oil on canvas
22 x 16¾ in. (56 x 42.8 cm.)
(2)a pair
Roses, parrot tulips, thistles, holly and other flowers with a brimstone butterfly on a cartouche with a sculpted angel; and Roses, a Turk-cap lily, narcissi, a parrot tulip and other flowers on a cartouche with a sculpted angel - fragments
oil on canvas
22 x 16¾ in. (56 x 42.8 cm.)
(2)a pair
Provenance
(Probably) Lionel Tollemache, 8th Earl of Dysart (1794-1878), Ham House, Surrey, by 1844, and by descent to,
William John Manners Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart, DL (1895-1935), by whom bequeathed with the house in 1935 to his second cousin,
Sir Lyonel Tollemache, 4th Bt. (1854-1952), and by descent to his granddaughter Barbara Judd (1926-2013).
William John Manners Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart, DL (1895-1935), by whom bequeathed with the house in 1935 to his second cousin,
Sir Lyonel Tollemache, 4th Bt. (1854-1952), and by descent to his granddaughter Barbara Judd (1926-2013).
Literature
(Probably) W.C. Joel, A Catalogue and Valuation of the Furniture, Plate, Books, Pictures and Engravings at Ham House, Petersham, Surrey, Richmond, 1911, p. 138, listed as H. Verelst.
(Probably) C. Rowell ed. Ham House, 400 Years of Collecting and Patronage, New Haven, 2013, Appendix 5: 'The 1844 Inventory', p. 499, listed as Verelsh [sic].
(Probably) C. Rowell ed. Ham House, 400 Years of Collecting and Patronage, New Haven, 2013, Appendix 5: 'The 1844 Inventory', p. 499, listed as Verelsh [sic].
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