Children melting Wax (after Schalcken; Young Man eating Porridge)
after Godfried Schalcken (Made, near Dordrecht, 1643 - The Hague 1706)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
740 x 610 mm
Place of origin
Brussels
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290263
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Children melting Wax (after Schalcken; Young Man eating Porridge), after Gotfried Schalken (Made, nr Dordrecht, 1643 - The Hague 1706). Two boys (or a male and female?) melting wax candles. The boy in centre has long brown hair and wears a doublet and hat. His face is lit by the candle which he holds in his left hand. In the other he holds a stick of melting wax which drips into a bowl below. The face of the second boy (girl?), on the right, looks over his left shoulder. The original is in the Musée des Beaux Arts, Brussels (416) called Young Man eating Porridge.
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
after Godfried Schalcken (Made, near Dordrecht, 1643 - The Hague 1706), artist previously catalogued as by Joseph Wright of Derby (Derby 1734 - Derby 1797), artist