Still Life with Summer Flowers in a Urn
Karel van Vogelaer, also called Carlo dei Fiori (Maastricht 1653 - Rome 1695)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1673 - 1695
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
965 x 730 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401146
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Still Life with Flowers in an Urn, by Karel van Vogelaer, also called Carlo dei Fiori (Maastricht 1653 - Rome 1695), signed: CAREL DE VOGELAER ROME. Vogelaer was a Flemish artist working in Rome. A mixed bunch of flowers in an ornamental stone vase - lilac, convolvulus, iris, sweet sultan, stocks, tiger-lilies, roses etc.
Provenance
This and its companion, NT 1401145 were almost certainly bought on the Grand Tour in 1739-40 by William Windham II (1717-1761) and which were both recorded in the 1764 inventory as being in the 'Third Room'; then by descent to Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906 - 1969), by whom bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969
Credit line
Felbrigg Hall, The Windham Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Karel van Vogelaer, also called Carlo dei Fiori (Maastricht 1653 - Rome 1695) , artist