River Landscape with Classical Ruins and a Castle
Hendrick Danckerts (The Hague 1625 - Amsterdam 1680)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1673
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
406 x 1295 mm (16 x 51 in)
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Ham House, Surrey
NT 1139797
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, River Landscape with Classical Ruins and a Castle by Hendrick Danckerts (The Hague 1625 - Amsterdam 1680), 1673. Landscape with a statue on a plinth to the right, figures walking beneath along a river. Across the river can be seen ruins among trees with mountains behind and a distant horizon. Danckerts worked for Charles II and had spent several years in Italy. There are several of his paintings at Hampton Court.
Provenance
In 1677 inventory (the joiner's bill dated 24 December 1674 includes the item 'ffor takeing out 6 pannills & putting in 6 picters...one In My Lords dressing Roome') 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)
Makers and roles
Hendrick Danckerts (The Hague 1625 - Amsterdam 1680), artist