A Landscape with Cottages
attributed to Emanuel Murant (Amsterdam 1622 – Leuwarden 1700)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1646 (bears date)
Materials
Oil on panel (oak)
Measurements
464 x 622 mm (18 1/4 x 24 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446727
Summary
Oil painting on oak panel, A Landscape with Cottages, attributed to Emanuel Murant (Amsterdam 1622 - Leuwarden 1700), bears signature and date: bottom right: P. Potter f... 1646. A cottage and a Dutch barn at the left, bounded on two sides by a canal, with two cows in a pasture in front; a path and track, separated by a broken fence, lead past other cottages, right, into the distance, two men are walking along the track. Falsely inscribed - P. Potter f...1646 (signed and dated).
Provenance
Always as by Potter: Sir George Phillips, 1882; Earl of Camperdown sale, Christie's, 21 February 1919, lot 144; bought by Simmons; anonymous sale, Christie's, 1 July 1921, lot 63; bought by Mallet on behalf of the 1st Lord Bearsted for £997.10 +2% commission = £1,022.8s.d; given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948), in 1948, shortly before his death
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
P. Potter f...1646 (signed and dated)
Makers and roles
attributed to Emanuel Murant (Amsterdam 1622 – Leuwarden 1700), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Paulus Potter (Enkhuizen 1625 – Amsterdam 1654) , artist
References
Hofstede de Groot 1907-28: C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, 8 vols., London 1907-28, vol. IV, No. 88 Wright 1989 Christopher Wright, Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century: Images of a Golden Age in British Collections, London and Birmingham, 1989, p. 223