A Vanitas Still Life
attributed to Jacob de Wet the Younger (Haarlem 1640 - Amsterdam 1697)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1688 - 1697
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
450 x 610 mm
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290376
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Vanitas Still Life, attributed to Jacob de Wet the younger (Haarlem 1640 - Amsterdam 1697). A vanitas still life with a book, a candle and inscribed papers on a table, late 17th century. The paper is inscribed 'Thus wee consume and so our lyght goes out / The time was the time is / The time shall be', a saying employed by the Jacobites.
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)
Marks and inscriptions
On the paper: Thus wee consume and so our lyght goes out / The time was the time is / The time shall be
Makers and roles
attributed to Jacob de Wet the Younger (Haarlem 1640 - Amsterdam 1697) , artist previously catalogued as circle of Edwaert Collier (fl.1662 - 1708), artist previously catalogued as by Joseph Wright of Derby (Derby 1734 - Derby 1797), artist