Soldiers playing with Cards in a Guardroom
imitator of David Teniers the younger (Antwerp 1610 - Brussels 1690)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1670 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
560 x 825 mm
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290254
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Soldiers playing Cards in a Guardroom, by an imitator of David Teniers the younger (Antwerp 1610 - Brussels 1690). The soldiers playing cards sit around a table with a group of people behind, at the back of the room is an archway looking out onto a landscape. In the foreground on the right and left are items of armour and flags.
Provenance
Acquired with Calke Abbey's contents, with the aid of a grant provided by the National Heritage Memorial Fund, thanks to a special allocation of money from the Government and transferred in lieu of tax on the estate of Charles Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1917 - 1981) to the National Trust with the house that was given by Henry Jenney Harpur-Crewe (1921- 1991), in 1984
Credit line
Calke Abbey, The Harpur Crewe Collection (acquired by the National Trust with the help of the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1984)
Makers and roles
imitator of David Teniers the younger (Antwerp 1610 - Brussels 1690), artist