An Avenue in a Garden
after Abraham Govaerts (Antwerp 1589 - Antwerp 1626)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
425 x 635 mm (16 3/4 x 25 in)
Place of origin
Flanders
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207807
Caption
A wholly unpeopled landscape or garden is rare in Netherlandish painting. Indeed, two figures (Vertumnus and Pomona, shown seated on the steps of the building) were painted out before the picture was bought by Mrs Bambridge. This was probably done relatively recently, to make the painting more saleable. The original, signed and dated ‘A. GOVAERTS/1620’, came to light when it was on the art market in 1999.
Summary
Oil painting on panel, An Avenue in a Garden, after Abraham Govaerts (Antwerp 1589 – Antwerp 1626). A wholly unpeopled landscape or garden is rare in Netherlandish painting. Indeed, two figures (Vertumnus and Pomona) were painted out before the picture was bought by Mrs Bambridge.
Provenance
Bought by Mrs Bambridge from Oscar & Peter Johnson; bequeathed by Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 - 1976), daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3,000 acres
Credit line
Wimpole Hall, The Bambridge Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Abraham Govaerts (Antwerp 1589 - Antwerp 1626), artist