A Classical Landscape with a Man and a Woman conversing and a Distant Hill Town and Castle
Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1715 - circa 1725
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
724 x 546 mm (28 1/2 x 21 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608995
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Classical Landscape with a Man and a Woman conversing and a Distant Hill Town and Castle by Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749), circa 1715/25. An oval landscape of a woman walking past a man seated on stone; a woman in the middle distance, a bundle on her head, by a stretch of water; castle on a rock in the distance.
Provenance
One of a set of six ovals pictures listed in the bill of lading in the papers from William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick, PC, FSA (1773 - 1842), which is that of his final return from Naples to England in 1833, thence by descent; bequeathed to the National Trust by Edith Teresa Hulton, Lady Berwick (1890-1972).
Credit line
Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
On frame: 59 and 145 On stretcher (top): X On stretcher (top): 6 On stretcher (bottom): ATT/P/059 On reverse of frame (top): 16 (over) 11 On reverse of frame (top): X and various scribbles in pencil including a name ... Stapo ....? On reverse of frame (right spandrel): 332 6 with ovil Land to geso in oil On reverse of frame (bottom): ATT/P/059
Makers and roles
Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749) , artist