A Landscape with a Village on a Hill
Franz de Paula Ferg (Vienna 1689 - London 1740)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1689 - 1737
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
737 x 610 mm (29 x 24 in)
Order this imageCollection
Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 138307.2
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Landscape with a Village on a Hill by Franz de Paula Ferg (Vienna 1689 – London 1737). (one of a pair, NT/UPP/P/142a is other). A hilltop village with a church at the left; figures and horseman on a river bank in the foreground and a plain and distant hills at the right. Austrian by birth, Ferg came to England in about 1718, and turned out quantities of small, precious landscapes in the Netherlandish manner.
Provenance
Early hanging-plans, in the Great Drawing Room: '18. [or 20.] Landscape Deferg' [between the windows]; H. R. Bolton's bill for cleaning pictures, 28th September 1869, in the Large Dining Rooom: '9 [or 10] Landscape. Italian Scenery by Francis Ferg.'; purchased by the National Trust from the Trustees of the late R.J. Meade-Fetherstonhaugh, Esq. in 1978
Credit line
Uppark, The Fetherstonhaugh Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
signed 'F Ferg f'
Makers and roles
Franz de Paula Ferg (Vienna 1689 - London 1740), artist