View of Windsor Castle, from the South
Johannes Vorsterman (Zalt-Bommel 1643 - ?Constantinople 1686 or after) and Jan Wyck (Haarlem c.1645 - Mortlake 1700) or Jan Griffier the elder (Amsterdam c.1645 - London 1718)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1680
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
508 x 826 mm (20 x 32 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Windsor Castle
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515439
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Windsor Castle from the South by Johannes Vorsterman (Zalt-Bommel 1643 - ?Constantinople 1686 or after) and Jan Wyck (Haarlem c.1645 - Mortlake 1700) or Jan Griffier the elder (Amsterdam c.1645 - London 1718), circa 1680. Landscape with Windsor Castle seen above river from the park with cottages, trees, boats, figures and horsemen in foreground, wooden bridge right foreground.
Provenance
Date of acquisition unknown. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Inscribed on bottom of frame: Windsor Castle circa 1680. / 1640 Jan Wijck 1702.
Makers and roles
Johannes Vorsterman (Zalt-Bommel 1643 - ?Constantinople 1686 or after) and Jan Wyck (Haarlem c.1645 - Mortlake 1700) or Jan Griffier the elder (Amsterdam c.1645 - London 1718), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jan Wyck (Haarlem 1645 - Mortlake 1700), artist
References
Bunt 1949 Cyril G. E. Bunt, Windsor Castle through Three Centuries, 1949, p.70: d trees.” Anglesey Abbey, 1990-1992 [The National Trust; Robin Fedden] 1972, revised 1990, reprinted 1992., p.13: