Still Life with Flowers in an Urn and Two Parrots
possibly Jakob Bogdany (c.1660 - 1724)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1829
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1257 x 997 mm (49 1/2 x 39 1/4 in)
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515449
Caption
The first painter of birds and still lifes in England was the native artist, Francis Barlow. While he had no follower, as such, in his faithful interpretation of native birds and animals, there was the Hungarian born artist Jacob Bogdani, who specialized in more exotic birds. In his flamboyant arrangement of the birds and fruit there is something of a Baroque swagger, associated with the Dutch painter, Hondecoeter. The assemblages are probably the result of combining painstaking sketches, drawn at different places and times, with entirely imaginary backgrounds. Such decorative paintings were made to adorn dining rooms or hunting rooms of large country houses.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Still Life with Flowers in an Urn and Two Parrots by Jakob Bogdani (Eperjez (now Presov, Hungary c.1660 - Finchley 1724) or Philip Reinagle (Scotland 1749 - Chelsea 1833), 18th to early 19th century. A stone urn filled with summer flowers of tulips, peonies and other flowers, stands on a ledge, a bouquet of flowers trails over the ledge. To the right an imposing column. A parrot and parakeet on broken masonry to left. Dramatic sky behind. 1995 attribution to Jakob Bogdani or Ramsay Richard Reinagle. Label on back attributes painting to Ramsay Richard Reinagle. Label on frame 'P. Reinagle 1749-1833'.
Provenance
Date of acquisition by Lord Fairhaven 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 gilt tablet affixed to bottom of frame: P. Reinagle 1749-1833. Verso: Inscribed label on back: Attributes painting to Ramsay Richard Reinagle (1775-1862)
Makers and roles
possibly Jakob Bogdany (c.1660 - 1724), artist possibly Philip Reinagle RA (Scotland 1749 – Chelsea 1833), artist
References
Antique Collector, December 1951: The Antique Collector, Vol.22, No.6, December, 1951, p.234