Still Life with Dead Game
Jacob Xavier Vermoelen (c.1714 – 1784)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1751 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1219 x 1753 mm (48 x 69 in)
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 138292.1
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Still Life with Dead Game by Jacob Xavier Vermoelen (c.1714 – 1784), signed and dated, bottom left: J. X. Vermoelen f Roma 1751. One of a pair of still lifes of dead game. A table on which is a basket of vegetables, dead birds and a rabbit, and a boar's head on a dish. A cat on the table and a spaniel bottom right are regarding the food. (P/127b is other in pair).
Provenance
Early 19th century hanging-plans [indicating, since these pictures were patently in the collection by then, that these show actual hangs of pictures, some of whose artists had not been identified, rather than ideal hangs, for which pictures were needed in the positions of the rectangsles left blank], in the Stone Hall, to left and right of the door to the Dining Room, as ' 10. 14.'; a later hand has inserted in pencil: 'Stil Life, Snyders'; H. R. Bolton's bill for cleaning, 28th September 1849, in the Entrance Hall: ' 5 Dead Game with Boars Head/ 'Dead Falcons and other Birds/ painted by J. V. Utrecht; accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury in , and transferred to the National Trust, 1985
Credit line
Uppark, The Fetherstonhaugh Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
P/127a or P/127b signed and dated bottom left - J. Z. Vermoelen f Roma 1751
Makers and roles
Jacob Xavier Vermoelen (c.1714 – 1784), artist