Allart van Everdingen (1621-1675)

A Scandinavian landscape with a peasant and shepherds on a track by a watermill

Details

Allart van Everdingen (1621-1675)
A Scandinavian landscape with a peasant and shepherds on a track by a watermill
traces of indistinct signature
oil on canvas
110.5 x 94 cm

Provenance

Hugh Ker Cokburne; Sale, Christie's, March 1860, lot 154 (30 gns) Anon. Sale Christie's London, 19 July 1974, lot 167 (2200 pounds)

Exhibited

Roeselare, Ter Posterie, Bruisend realisme, 15-24 November 1996, no.19, with ill.

Lot Essay

Allart van Everdingen, born in Alkmaar, studied with Roelant Savery in Utrecht from whom he adopted his fascination for mountainous landscapes. When he was 19, Allart left for Scandinavia probably in the company of Lodewijk Trip, a member of the Amsterdam family of arms traders which owned iron mines and foundries in Sweden. After being shipwrecked on the Norwegian coast Van Everdingen traversed Norway and Sweden and recorded the impressive landscape in numerous drawings that served for his later paintings. Van Everdingen thus introduced a new genre of landscape painting that greatly influenced Jacob van Ruisdael.