Landscape with Nymph and River God
attributed to Johannes Glauber (Utrecht 1646 - Schoonhoven 1726)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1710 - circa 1720
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
457 xc 381 mm (18 x 15 in)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872533
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (once stretched as oval, in a frame with octagonal opening), Landscape with Nymph and River God, attributed to Johannes Glauber (Utrecht 1646 – Schoonhoven 1726), circa 1710-20. One of a pair of paintings one depicting Echo and Narcisssus and the other Nymph and River God. A nymph is crowning a river God: small figures in the foreground of a classical landscape with a high mountain in the distance.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust as part of the endowment by Montagu Brownlow Parker, 5th Earl of Morley (1878-1962)
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Inscribed in brown ink on slip of old paper stuck to back of what was once top (now bottom) member of frame: No6/[rest torn off]
Makers and roles
attributed to Johannes Glauber (Utrecht 1646 - Schoonhoven 1726), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749)