Pastoral Landscape
Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1682 - 1749
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2500 x 1675 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108901
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Pastoral Landscape, by Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749). Orizzonte was one of the most successful of the Flemish artists who went to Rome and specialised in painting landscapes, particularly for foreign tourists, in the vein made popular by Gaspard Dughet. His nickname even appears to have derived from his speciality, referring to the beautiful prospects, or 'horizons' in his pictures.
Provenance
Bought with its pair (KED/P/219) by the picture dealer William Kent (not the architect) for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Bt, 1st Baron Scarsdale in Florence, from the Marchese Arnaldi in 1758, possible as an overdoor for old house; at Kedleston by 1769; and thence by descent; bought with part of the contents of Kedleston Hall with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) in 1986 when the house and park were given to the National Trust by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000)
Credit line
Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1987)
Makers and roles
Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749) , publisher