Moonlit Riverscape
Aert van der Neer (Amsterdam 1603/4 – Amsterdam 1677)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1623 - 1677
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1090 x 1520 mm
Order this imageCollection
Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd
NT 1420341
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Moonlit Riverscape by Aert van der Neer (Amsterdam 1603 – Amsterdam 1677). A prominent windmill middle right, sail boat in middle of river, trees on left.
Provenance
Bought by Farrer from General Phipps; Colonel the Hon. Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn of Llandegai (1800 – 1886); thence by descent to Hugh Napier Douglas-Pennant, 4th Baron Penrhyn of Llangedai (1894 – 1949), who left Penryhn and its estates to his niece, Lady Janet Marcia Rose Pelham (1923 - 1997), who with her husband John Charles Harper, thereupon assumed the name of Douglas Pennant; accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Penrhyn Castle, 2002.
Credit line
Penrhyn Castle, The Douglas Pennant Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Aert van der Neer (Amsterdam 1603/4 – Amsterdam 1677), artist