A Young Boy of the Harpur Family
Cornelius Johnson (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1613 - 1661
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1195 x 965 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290392
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Young Boy of the Harpur Family by Cornelius Johnson (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661). A young Harpur Crewe boy is shown full-length wearing a blue robe and red cloak. He is seated with his dog in a wooded landscape and points to a bird on the branch of the tree behind him.
Provenance
Acquired with Calke Abbey's contents, with the aid of a grant provided by the National Heritage Memorial Fund, thanks to a special allocation of money from the Government and transferred in lieu of tax on the estate of Charles Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1917 - 1981) to the National Trust with the house that was given by Henry Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1921- 1991), in 1984
Credit line
Calke Abbey, The Harpur Crewe Collection (acquired by the National Trust with the help of the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1984)
Makers and roles
Cornelius Johnson (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696), artist