The Vegetable Seller
Jan Baptist Lambrechts (Antwerp 1680 - after 1731)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1730
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
599 x 495 mm (23 ½ x 19 ½ in)
Place of origin
Antwerp
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 772280
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Vegetable Seller by Jan Baptist Lambrechts (Antwerp 1680 - after 1731). A householder (or innkeeper?) sits outside his house in a chair, holding a large flagon in his right hand, with an even larger one on the ground in front of him surrounded by vegetables of various kinds, with his family and staff on either side of him; in front of him, a female vegetable-seller appears to be offering him a basket of cabbages (?).
Provenance
Gift of Anne Arnold, 2001, in fulfilment of a request by her father that his pictures should be offered to The National Trust (we only took this one).
Makers and roles
Jan Baptist Lambrechts (Antwerp 1680 - after 1731), artist Pieter Angillis (1685 - 1734) , artist