Landscape with Figures bathing near Classical Ruins
Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer 1598 - Amsterdam 1657)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1620 - 1657
Materials
Oil on oak panel
Measurements
382 x 484 mm
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 2900017
Summary
Oil painting on panel (oak), Landscape with Figures bathing near Classical Ruins by Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer 1598 - Amsterdam 1657), signed, vaguely legible, lower left 'BB f'.
Provenance
Purchased by Sir Henry Bankes (1714-1774), 1754; thence by descent to his daughter Frances Bankes, married to Sir Brownlow Cust (1744-1807), 1st Baron Brownlow of Belton; thence by descent to Edward Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow; his sale, Belton House, Lincolnshire, Christie's on the premises, 30 April - 2 May 1984, lot 568 (as circle of Bartholomeus Breenbergh); purchased by the National Trust at auction at Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 30 November 2010, lot 22 (as by Bartolomeus Breenbergh), with a grant from the V&A Purchase Grant Fund, with funds from Belton House and with funds from other gifts and bequests.
Makers and roles
Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer 1598 - Amsterdam 1657), artist