An Old Man writing a Book by Candlelight
Godfried Schalcken (Made, near Dordrecht, 1643 - The Hague 1706)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1663 - 1706
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
850 x 660 mm
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290274
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Old Man writing a Book by Candlelight by (or after) Godfried Schalcken (1643-1706). A head and shoulders of bearded man turned slightly to left and looking down, whose face is lit by the candle he holds, writing in a book. A version of a painting attributed to Schalcken sold in New York in 1989.
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
Godfried Schalcken (Made, near Dordrecht, 1643 - The Hague 1706), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Joseph Wright of Derby (Derby 1734 - Derby 1797), artist