LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

8.62 in. (21.90 cm.) (height) by 10.87 in. (27.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with monogram 'VDH' (lower right, on the well)

Exhibited:

London, British Institution, Works of Ancient Masters: The Property of His Most Gracious Majesty William the Fourth, the Most Noble The Marquess of Westminster and the Right Honourable Sir Charles Bagot, G.C.B, 1834, no. 56

Literature:

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, etc, V, London, 1834, p. 393, no. 77, as figures by A. van de Velde. J. Smith, A Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, etc, IX, London, 1842, p. 673, no. 15. T. Cox, Inventory of the contents of Netley Hall, Shropshire, 1917, p. 4 (drawing room). C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the Seventeenth Century, etc, VIII, London, 1927, pp. 387-8, no. 196

Provenance:

Probably) Sale; Amsterdam, 13 July 1718, lot 12, as 'Een Stad van binnen te zien, waer in de hostie onder een Verhemelte over straet gedragen wert, door Vander Heyde, meet Beeldjes van dito [A. vande Velde], zeer uytvoerig' (54 florins). Mary, Countess of Holderness (1720-1801); her sale (†), Christie's, London, 6 March 1802, lot 57, as 'figures of A. V. de Velde' (61 gns. to Seguier). Edward Coxe; his sale, Peter Coxe, London, 25 April 1807, lot 45 (61 gns. to W. Seguier for the following), John Dent (1760-1826), Hertford Street, May Fair; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 28 April 1827, lot 93, as 'figures by A. V. de Velde' (60 gns. to Emmerson). Sir Charles Bagot, G.C.B.; his sale, Christie's, London, 18 June 1836, lot 50, as 'Van der Heyde and Adrian van de Velde' (200 gns. to Clowes). The Rev. John Clowes, Manchester. Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Bt. (1829-1900), Wootton Hall, Ashbourne, Derbyshire; (†), Christie's, London, 27 April 1901, lot 32 (920 gns. to Morgan). Lt. Col. Herbert James Hope-Edwardes, Netley Hall, Shropshire, and by descent to Lady More ( née Hope-Edwardes formerly, Coldwell), Netley Hall, and subsequently Linley Hall, Shropshire, and by descent