Landscape with Huntsmen
Joseph van der Voordt (fl. 1714 - 1754/5)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1716 (?) (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
995 mm (H)1195 mm (W)
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1151333
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Landscape with Huntsmen by Joseph van der Voordt (fl. 1714 - 1754/5), indistinctly signed and dated 171[6?]. Small figures in a thickly wooded theatrical landscape two peasants seated beneath a monument with a crouching lion, are approached by a soldier, other figures in the background.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905 – 1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973
Credit line
Erddig, The Yorke Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Signed and dated: under the lion : P. [?] of Vandervoorde [?] I t. et Ao and date on pedestal, 1716[?]
Makers and roles
Joseph van der Voordt (fl. 1714 - 1754/5), artist Jan van Voordt (fl. 1727 - 1745), artist