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ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE (AMSTERDAM 1636-AMSTERDAM 1672)
A Hawking Party Setting Out
Signed and dated 1666Oil on panel | 50.2 x 46.9 cm (support, canvas/panel/str external) | RCIN 406966
The market for Dutch painting is usually assumed to have been middle class; what would they have made of an aristocratic image like this? A party sets out hunting, the retinue of a proud, plumed lady riding side-saddle on her white horse. Would she have appeared like a princess from a romance or a figure of fun?
Acquired by George IV in 1810, when Prince of Wales
Acquired by George IV in 1810, when Prince of Wales
