Birds and Fruit in a Landscape with a Fountain in the background
Jakob Bogdany (c.1660 - 1724)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1680 - 1724
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
753 x 1035 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515491
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, Birds and Fruit by Jakob Bogdani (Eperjes (now Presov), Hungary c.1660 – Finchley 1724), signed Jr Bogdane. Still life with fruit, jay and cockatoo, formal garden beyond, melon on ground centre foreground. . Label on frame 'J. Bogdani 1670-1724. From the Norfolk House Collection'.
Provenance
Duke of Norfolk sale, Chrisites, Feb 1938, lot 64, with companion (P/55); bought Leggatt; 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)
Makers and roles
Jakob Bogdany (c.1660 - 1724), artist