Called Roses in a Glass Bowl (actually the left fragment of a garland against grisaille stone)
Daniel Seghers (Antwerp 1590 – Antwerp 1661)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1640 - 1661
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
343 x 264 mm (13 1/2 x 10 3/8 in)
Place of origin
Netherlands
Order this imageCollection
Mompesson House, Wiltshire
NT 724332
Caption
This floral still life appears to be a fragment from the kind of flowerpiece, invented by Jan Brueghel the Elder and which became typical of Seghers’s work, of a flower garland surrounding a religious scene in an architectural cartouche painted in grisaille (monchrome) to emulate stone. In 1611 Daniel Seghers became Jan Brueghel’s pupil in Antwerp. After he became a Jesuit in 1614 he seems to have worked exclusively on this type of painting.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Called Roses in a Glass Bowl (actually the left fragment of a garland against grisaille stone) by Daniel Seghers (Antwerp 1590 – Antwerp 1661) signed in monogram, circa 1640. Still life of roses and other flowers on a ledge. Complete examples are in the Royal Collection and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Provenance
Carfax & Co., London; bequeathed by Mr Robert S. Watney, 1981; moved to Mompesson House from Hanbury Hall, 1990.
Credit line
The Robert S. Watney Bequest (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: a lable on the frame: Carfax & Co, 24 Bury Street, London
Makers and roles
Daniel Seghers (Antwerp 1590 – Antwerp 1661), artist