A Wooded River Landscape with Saint Philip baptising the Eunuch
Lucas van Uden (Antwerp 1595 – Antwerp 1672)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1615 - 1672
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
749 x 1080 mm (29 1/2 x 42 1/2 in)
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Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 22855
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Wooded River Landscape with Saint Philip baptising the Eunuch by Lucas van Uden (Antwerp 1595 – Antwerp 1672). A wooded river landscape with Saint Philip baptising the Eunuch and the Temple of Vesta beyond. The figures are by another hand.
Provenance
Bought from posthumous sale of Lord Northwick (1769-1859), Thirlestane House, 1859, lot 269 (£63); purchased by the National Trust from the estate of the late George Richard Lawley Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall (1928 – 2001) with the assistance of the NHMF, Art Fund and donations from members and supporters in 2002
Credit line
Tyntesfield, The Gibbs Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Labelled 'RUBENS' at front of frame.
Makers and roles
Lucas van Uden (Antwerp 1595 – Antwerp 1672), artist Jan Wildens (Antwerp 1585/86 - Antwerp 1653), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Frans Francken II (Antwerp 1581 - Antwerp 1642) , artist Jacques d'Arthois (Brussels 1613 - Brussels 1686), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640), artist
References
Waagen 1854-7: Gustav Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 3 vols. (translated by Lady Eastlake) with a supplementary volume: Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854-7, III, p.206