A Bleaching Ground outside Haarlem
Jan van Kessel (Amsterdam 1641 - Amsterdam 1680)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1661 - 1680
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
745 x 996 mm
Place of origin
Haarlem
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Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401311
Caption
Kessel was a friend of Hobbema, and possibly a pupil of Jacob van Ruisdael, a number of whose views of his native Haarlem show the grounds where laundry was left to be dried and bleached by the sun. This picture was probably acquired by William II Windham in the Low Countries on his return from Switzerland in the autumn of 1742.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Bleaching Ground outside Haarlem by Jan van Kessel (Amsterdam 1641 – Amsterdam 1680), signed lower left: Jean van Kassel. A flat landscape with a house to the left and fields with figures and a yellow strips of linen to the right, beneath an expanse of cloudy sky. Kessel was a friend of Hobbema, and possibly - certainly a follower - a pupil of Jacob van Ruisdael, a number of whose views of his native Haarlem show bleaching-grounds; one of the closest to this is the painting in the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.
Provenance
This was one of the pictures that William Windham II probably acquired in the Low Countries on his return from Switzerland in the autumn of 1742; bequeathed with the hall and contents by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906 – 1969) Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)
Makers and roles
Jan van Kessel (Amsterdam 1641 - Amsterdam 1680), artist