Interior with a Woman, Child and Maidservant
Richard van Bleeck (The Hague 1670 – London c.1733)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1730
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
525 x 450 mm
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1336272
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Interior with a Woman, Child and Maidservant by Richard van Bleeck (The Hague 1670 – London c.1733), labelled Bleeck. An interior with a seated woman and child, a maid to her right by a table with a red, patterned cover. The woman wearing red, fur lined cape and brown skirt, feet on a footstool. She is holding a baby wearing a fur hood, apparently reaching out to the maid. A small white dog and a cat on the tiled floor. In ornate gilt frame, unglazed. In notebook no.4, page 16 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Anns Room 2. A Dutch Painting a woman in vermillion coat trimmed with white fur, holding a child, in the background another figure of a woman, a table covered with a Turkoman rug; by BLEEK 17th. cent. fr. Hagelmann.' Includes sketch
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
Bleeck
Makers and roles
Richard van Bleeck (The Hague 1670 – London c.1733), artist
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 4 First and Second Floor, 1944, page 16