DANIEL VAN BEKE | STILL LIFE WITH ROSES, TULIPS, PRIMULAS, HYACINTHS AND OTHER SPRING FLOWERS IN A VASE ON A MARBLE LEDGE

W.R. Rees-Davies, M.P. (1916–92);

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 25 April 1951, lot 104, for £30;

Herbert Frederick Brudenell Foster (1908–96), Park House, Drumoak;

By whose Executors sold, London, Christie's, 18 April 1997, lot 98;

Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 10 June 1998, lot 146, when acquired.

The SØR Rusche Collection has been exhibited extensively over the last two decades. Please click here for further information.

A. Blankert, 'Daniel van Beke, schout, schilder en dichter', in Oud Holland, vol. 82, 1968, pp. 242 and 245, reproduced fig. 1;

Saur Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon. Die bildenden aller Künstler Zeiten und Völker, vol. 8, Munich and Leipzig 1992, p. 351;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 5, Stilleben und Tierstücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2004, pp. 54–57, cat. no. 5, reproduced in colour.

First published by Blankert, this is the only extant, signed still life painting by this artist, who from 1695 was sheriff and notary at Bodegraven. He was taught to paint by Jacob Weyerman, whose signed painting at the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, contains many similarities to the present still life.[1]

1 Inv. no. 382; https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/63149