Diana with Nymphs
Adriaen van Nieulandt, the younger (Antwerp 1587 – Amsterdam 1658)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1615 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1600 x 2197 mm (63 x 86 ½ in)
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 1139668
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Diana with Nymphs by Adriaen van Nieulandt, the younger (Antwerp 1587 – Amsterdam 1658), signed bottom centre, in fine black script: Adriaen van / Nieulandt Fecit / Ano 1615. Landscape format showing a clothed Diana seated in the bottom right, two hunting dogs beside her right knee. Culled deer in the foreground, with other hunters. There is another later version of Diana and her Nymphs by van Nieulandt dated 1641 in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Brunswick.
Provenance
Possibly commissioned by Thomas Vavasour(1560–1620); in 1677, 1679, 1683 inventories and thence by descent until acquired in 1948 by HM Government when Sir Lyonel, 4th Bt (1854 – 1952) and Sir Cecil Tollemache, 5th Bt (1886 – 1969) presented Ham House to the National Trust, and entrusted to the care of the Victoria & Albert Museum, until 1990, when returned to the care of the National Trust, and to which ownership was transferred in 2002
Credit line
Ham House, The Dysart Collection (purchased by HM Government in 1948 and transferred to the National Trust in 2002)
Marks and inscriptions
signed and dated
Makers and roles
Adriaen van Nieulandt, the younger (Antwerp 1587 – Amsterdam 1658), artist