A Landscape with a Mill
follower of Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden 1606 – Amsterdam 1669)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
823 x 1061 mm (32 3/8 x 41 3/4 in)
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Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446729
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Landscape with a Mill, by a follower of Rembrandt van Rijn (Leyden 1606 – Amsterdam 1669). The mill stands among cottages at the right of a winding canal which broadens in the foreground; on the left is a bridge over a creek, which a rider on a white horse, accompanied by a running youth, has just crossed, a large building left, a church steeple beyond and various scattered figures.
Provenance
Sir Simon Clarke and G. Hibbert sale, Christie's, 15 May 1802, lot 46, as by Rembrandt, but presumably bought in for it was included in Hibbert's sale, 13 June 1829, lot 22, as by Koninck: bought by Emmerson; Emmerson sale, Phillips, 15 June 1832, lot 149, as by Rembrandt; Sir Samuel Scott Bt., of Redenham Ho., Andover, 1839 and 1861; Edward Scott, 1880; posthumous sale of Sir Samuel Scott, Christie's, 16 July 1943, lot 11, repd., as attrib. to Rembrandt: bought by Barnes'(probably the name or agent used by Lord Bearsted) for 2,940 (cf. Rembrandt/Lievens Priest, the Hardy, & the Duyster, and the fact that he clearly owned this picture by the 27 July) [but the clerk's copy of the catalogue in Christie's archive gives Ames' as the buyer - which may, however, have been another nom de vente used by Lord Bearsted]; given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948), in 1948, shortly before his death
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
follower of Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden 1606 – Amsterdam 1669), artist
References
Smith 1829-42 John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, 8 vols and supplement, London, 1829-42, vol.VII, No.605 Hofstede de Groot 1907-28: C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, 8 vols., London 1907-28, vol.VI, No.967b Gerson 1936 H. Gerson, Koninck, Berlin, 1936, p.32, No.XXVI.