A Battle Scene
Italian School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1700
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
394 x 654 mm (15 1/2 x 25 3/4 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732180
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Battle Scene, Italian School, signed in yellow: PL, botttom right, circa 1700. Copy of Charles X Gustav in the fight against the Tatars in the Battle of Warsaw in 1656 by Johan Filip Lemke (1631 - 1711).
Provenance
Introduced from Wavendon beween 1913 and 1925; given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of the contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Signed: in yellow bottom right PL Verso: Inscribed: in faint chalk on stretcher: No.3 [any other inscriptions whited out] Verso: Inscribed: on stretcher and back of frame in white paint: 492 Verso: Inscribed: in pencil on back of frame: Leading up stairs Bottom
Makers and roles
Italian School