David de Heem (Antwerp 1663-1714 The Hague)
These lots have been imported from outside the EU … Read more PROPERTY OF THE LATE MRS BARBARA OVERLAND, REMOVED FROM MONTPELLIER, JERSEY (LOTS 24, 26, 114, 143 & 154)
David de Heem (Antwerp 1663-1714 The Hague)

Hydrangeas, morning glories, a parrot tulip and other flowers with grapes, oranges, cherries, blackberries, ears of corn, loquats, and chestnuts, with two snails, hanging from a blue bow in a feigned arched stone niche

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David de Heem (Antwerp 1663-1714 The Hague)
Hydrangeas, morning glories, a parrot tulip and other flowers with grapes, oranges, cherries, blackberries, ears of corn, loquats, and chestnuts, with two snails, hanging from a blue bow in a feigned arched stone niche
oil on canvas
22 7/8 x 18 7/8 in. (58.1 x 48 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale [Mrs. D.E. Bramhall]; Christie’s, London, 16 March 1956 lot 135, as 'C. DE HEEM' (180 gns. to Rivett)
E.R.G. Billmeir, Westbrook House, Elstead, Surrey; Sotheby's, London, 19-20 September 1995, lot 468, as 'Cornelis de Heem'.
with Rafael Valls Ltd., London, from whom purchased by the late Mrs. Barbara Overland.
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Lot Essay

We are grateful to Fred Meijer, of the RKD, The Hague, for confirming the attribution on the basis of photographs, although he does not exclude a collaboration between David and his father Cornelis de Heem. They shared a studio in The Hague from the late 1670s to 1690.

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