A Village Market

Sybrand van Beest (The Hague c.1610 – Amsterdam 1674)
National Trust Inventory Number 872108

Category	Paintings
Date	1644 (signed and dated)
Materials	Oil on panel
Measurements	572 x 826 mm (22 1/2 x 32 1/2 in)
Place of origin	Holland

Collection	Saltram, Devon (Accredited Museum)
On show at	Saltram, Devon, South West, National Trust

Summary description

Oil painting on canvas, A Village Market by Sybrand van Beest (The Hague c.1610 – Amsterdam 1674), signed and dated: S VBeest 1644 . A village street with flower and vegetable stalls, and numerous figures

Provenance

Accepted by the Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the Trust in 1957.

Marks and inscriptions

Recto: Signed : S Beest 1644

Makers and roles

Sybrand van Beest (The Hague c.1610 – Amsterdam 1674), artist
previously attributed to Joost Cornelis Droochsloot (Utrecht 1586 – Utrecht 1666), artist

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Periods	17th century (31239)
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