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Nicolaes van Verendael Antwerp 1640 - 1691
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Description
- Nicolaes van Verendael
- Still life with a bouquet of flowers in a glass vase, including roses, morning glory, parrot tulips and snowballs, arranged on a partly draped stone ledge with a snail
- signed lower left: Ni. V. Varendael fecit.
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Graham Baron Ash, Wingfield Castle, Diss, Norfolk (but see adjacent note);
With Leger Galleries, London, 1967 or 1977 (as dated 1677);
Private collection, London;
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Christie's, 11 July 1980, lot 93, for £38,000 to Both;
With Marshall Spink, London;
Bought by the present owner in circa 1982.
Literature
M.-L. Hairs, The Flemish Flower Painters in the XVIIth Century, Brussels 1985, p. 501.
Catalogue Note
Verendael is considered to have been a follower of Daniel Seghers, but his own meticulous style is distinctive and easily recognisable in a typical picture such as this one. An anecdote attributed to a contemporary by J.C. Weyerman who repeated it relates how he spent four days painting a single carnation.1
Provenance
While this picture was offered with an anonymous designation, and no provenance, when sold at Christie's in 1980, three other lots (33-35) were sold by Order of the Executors of the late Graham Baron Ash. It is not clear if this was a coincidence, or if this picture too was sold by his Estate, or if it had never belonged to him at all.
1. Cited by Hairs, under Literature, p. 301.
Provenance
While this picture was offered with an anonymous designation, and no provenance, when sold at Christie's in 1980, three other lots (33-35) were sold by Order of the Executors of the late Graham Baron Ash. It is not clear if this was a coincidence, or if this picture too was sold by his Estate, or if it had never belonged to him at all.
1. Cited by Hairs, under Literature, p. 301.