A Classical Landscape with a Man and a Woman conversing
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 609004
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Classical Landscape by Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749) , circa 1715/25. An oval landscape with a man standing on a path in the foreground conversing with female figure reclining on rock to left. A fountain to the right in front of stone pines.
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: 68 and 143 On stretcher (top): 4 On stretcher (bottom): ATT/P/068 On reverse of frame (top): pencil scribbles On reverse of frame (top): 4 On reverse of frame (bottom): ATT/PF/068 On reverse of frame (right): 7
Makers and roles
Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749) , artist