Previously attributed to Hendrick Danckerts (c. 1625-c. 1685)
Classical Landscape
Oil on canvas | 192.7 x 224.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404022
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A woman and two men are depicted drinking from goblets in a clearing between two rocky outcrops, with a waterfall in the middle distance, and an Italianate building in the centre distance.
This painting was previously attributed to Hendrick Danckerts, a Dutch artist specialising in landscape and topographical scenes, who was definitely working as an artist for Charles II in England during the mid-1660s. Danckerts visited Italy in around 1653 for two years and although many of his classical landscapes were painted some years later, he used material gathered during his travels.
By 1688 there were 29 painting by Danckerts in the Royal Collection. A number of these were described simply as 'classical landscapes' and it is impossible to identify them all in the early inventories or accurately plot their later courses. While the present painting does from the seventeenth century, it is not now believed to be by Danckerts himself, but by an artist working in a similar style at around the same time.Provenance
First recorded at Windsor Castle in 1876
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Oil on canvas
Measurements
192.7 x 224.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
209.1 x 240.0 x 8.3 cm (frame, external)
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