A Harbour Scene
after Jan Brueghel the Elder (Brussels 1568 - Antwerp 1625)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on copper
Measurements
270 x 356 mm (10 5/8 x 14 in)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446773
Summary
Oil painting on copper, A Harbour Scene, after Jan Brueghel the elder (Brussels 1568 - Antwerp 1625). Copied after an original (whereabouts unknown), signed and dated 1613. A river estuary with boats moored along the beach near a village which lines the right bank; groups of figures are gathered in the foreground in front of a windmill on a dune, while a sailing boat, laden with passengers, is being drawn up to the shore.
Provenance
In France in early 19th Century (deducible from early 19th-Century French text used as lining-paper, and brass cartouche inscr. BREUGHEL); Capt. R.A. Ogilby (1850 -1902) of Londonderry sale, Christie's, 28 April 1922, lot 71; bought by Sabin (with Upton House, no.173), from whom both acquired by Lord Bearsted (with 5% commission) for £110.5; given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948), in 1948, shortly before his death
Makers and roles
after Jan Brueghel the Elder (Brussels 1568 - Antwerp 1625), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jan Brueghel the Younger (Antwerp 1601 - Antwerp 1678) , artist
References
Gore 1964: F. St John Gore, Upton House, The Bearsted Collection: Pictures National Trust, 1964, p. 44, no. 172