A Winter Landscape
Antonie van Stralen, known as Verstralen (c.1593/4 – Amsterdam 1641)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1641 (monogrammed and dated)
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
225 x 289 mm (8 7/8 x 11 3/8 in)
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Order this imageCollection
Ascott Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 1535107
Caption
This frozen landscape was painted by van Stralen in 1641, the year he died. The artist painted in the manner of Henrick Avercamp, a specialist in winter landscapes.
Summary
Oil painting on panel, A Winter Landscape by Antonie van Stralen, known as Verstralen (c.1593/4 – Amsterdam 1641), signed and dated, bottom on the left AVS (in monogram), 1641. Also known as Van Stralen, the artist painted in the manner of Henrick Avercamp, a specialist in winter landscapes. A frozen winter scene with an old peasant, possibly personifying Winter, is standing on the bank in the left foreground beside a pool or canal, next to a barrel on a post, marking the water's edge. A number of figures are walking or skating on the ice and in the right background a group are collected around tents which have been erected on the ice.
Provenance
Baron Lionel de Rothschild (1808-1879); given to the National Trust by Anthony de Rothschild (1887- 1961) with the house and in 1949
Credit line
Ascott, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Antonie van Stralen, known as Verstralen (c.1593/4 – Amsterdam 1641), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Aert van der Neer (Amsterdam 1603/4 – Amsterdam 1677), artist
References
Ascott, Buckinghamshire, Scala, 2008 by John Martin Robinson and others [pictures entries by Karin Wolfe on basis of Gore entries, 1963 with contributions from Alastair Laing] , no. 22