Still Life of Dead Game
Dirk Valckenburg (1675-1721)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1710 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1118 x 940 mm (44 x 37 in)
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959493
Summary
Oil painting in canvas, Still Life of Dead Game by Dirk Valckenburg (1675-1721), inscribed, bottom edge: ‘D Valkenburg 1710’.Still life of dead game with a brace of woodcock, ducks, pigeon, a kingfisher and a gun in a landscape setting. Born in Amsterdam, the Dutch artist, Dirk Valkenburg is best known for his still life paintings. This painting must have been executed just after his return from the Dutch colony of Surinam in South America, where he was employed by the Amsterdam merchant, Jonas Witsen to work as an artist and book keeper on his plantation, documenting the wildlife and inhabitants of the region.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust by private treaty sale from Lord St Oswald in 2010
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
signed and dated
Makers and roles
Dirk Valckenburg (1675-1721), publisher
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. 290, plate XXX