Still Life with Flowers
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger (Arnemuiden 1609 - Utrecht 1645)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1630 - 1633
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
305 x 216 mm (12 x 8 ½ in)
Place of origin
Netherlands
Order this imageCollection
Mompesson House, Wiltshire
NT 724334
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Still life with Flowers by Ambroisus Bosschaert the younger (Arnemuiden 1609 - Utrecht 1645), monogrammed A[over]B fec., circa 1630-1633. A glass bowl sits on a ledge filled with tulips and other flowers and red berries, possibly redcurrants, lie on the left.
Provenance
Bequeathed by Mr Robert S. Watney, 1981; moved to Mompesson House from Hanbury Hall, 1990
Credit line
Mompesson House, The Robert S. Watney Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
AB fec. (?)
Makers and roles
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger (Arnemuiden 1609 - Utrecht 1645), artist previously catalogued as by Ambrosius Bosschaert, the Elder (Antwerp 1573 - The Hague 1621), artist previously catalogued as manner of Balthasar van der Ast (Middelburg 1593/4 - Delft 1657), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Abraham Brueghel (Antwerp c.1631 - Naples 1690), artist
References
Willigen and Meijer 2003: Adriaan van der Willigen & Fred G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-Life Painters working in Oils, 1525–1725, Leyden 2003, , pp.45–46, svv.)