An Italian Landscape with Peasants by a Ruined Castle
Adriaen Hendricksz Verboom (Rotterdam c.1628 - Amsterdam c.1670)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1628 - 1670
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
679 x 641 mm (26¾ x 25¼ in)
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959445
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Italian Landscape with Peasants by a Ruined Castle by Adriaen Hendricksz Verboom (Rotterdam c.1628 - Amsterdam c.1670), signed ‘A. Vboom’. A landscape with ruins, a couple with donkeys on a track lower left, other figures with sheep and goats beyond. The Dutch artist, Verboom specialised in landscapes and was sometimes described as the ‘Dutch Claude', after the great 17th century French landscape painter, Claude Lorraine. His work was highly regarded in England in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Provenance
Brockwell, 1915 quotes from description of picture in the Athenaeum, 2 October 1880, p.440:‘A “Landscape and Figures” by Verboom hung in Room XV in the house of Sir Rowland, the 5th Baronet, in St James’s Square, at his death, and was offered for sale there by Christie in April 1785. It may have been bought in’;
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Obverse of frame inscribed ‘VERBOOM’
Makers and roles
Adriaen Hendricksz Verboom (Rotterdam c.1628 - Amsterdam c.1670), artist
References
Brockwell 1915 Maurice Walter Brockwell, Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art in the Collection of Lord St Oswald at Nostell Priory, London 1915, cat. 122