A Landscape with a Common and Coppice
Meindert Hobbema (Amsterdam 1638 – Amsterdam 1709) and Adriaen van der Velde (Amsterdam 1636 - Amsterdam 1672)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1663
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
870 x 1135 mm
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486134
Caption
The painting was at Petworth by 1822 and was possibly inherited by the 3rd Earl from the Earl of Thomond in 1774. The artist was a landscape painter of the Dutch school, though the animals are by Adriaen van der Velde. The frame is one of ‘half a dozen magnificent Dutch frames’ found in an attic in 1952.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Landscape with a Common and Coppice by Meindert Hobbema (Amsterdam 1638 – Amsterdam 1709) and Adriaen van der Velde (Amsterdam 1636 - Amsterdam 1672) c.1663.Landscape by Hobbema with the animals painted by Adriaen van der Velde. At left, in the foreground, is a road leading to a sunny mid-distance of sand and gorse with two figures; in the centre there are two cows and four sheep; at right there is water with lilies and a fallen tree and at left mid-distance can be seen a house amid trees, with a gap leading to the low distance and, at centre, a house in shadow.
Provenance
Possibly inherited by the 3rd Earl of Egremont from the Earl of Thomond in 1774 and at Petworth by 1822. Thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Credit line
Petworth, The Egremont Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Cattle by A. van de Velde. M. HOBBIMA (signed and inscription reproduced exactly from Collins Baker but cannnot be seen today)
Makers and roles
Meindert Hobbema (Amsterdam 1638 – Amsterdam 1709) and Adriaen van der Velde (Amsterdam 1636 - Amsterdam 1672), artist Adriaen van de Velde (Amsterdam 1636 – Amsterdam 1672), artist Meindert Hobbema (Amsterdam 1638 – Amsterdam 1709), artist
References
Remastered - Bosch to Bellotto: An Exhibition of Petworth's European Old Masters (exh cat) (Andrew Loukes) Petworth House, West Sussex, 9 January - 6 March 2016, no. 43 Prized Possessions: Dutch Paintings from National Trust Houses (exh. cat.), Holburne Museum, Bath 25 May - 16 Sep 2018; Mauritshuis, The Hague, 11 Oct 2018 - 6 Jan 2019; Petworth House, West Sussex, 26 Jan - 24 Mar 2019., pp. 95-7, no.8