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The Property of a Lady

Barend van der Meer

Still life with a roemer, peaches, grapes, cherries, pomegranates and a pear on a ledge with a grey parrot

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The Property of a Lady


Barend van der Meer

Haarlem 1659–before 1703

Still life with a roemer, peaches, grapes, cherries, pomegranates and a pear on a ledge with a grey parrot


signed centre left: Bvdermeer

oil on canvas

unframed: 101.5 x 125 cm.; 39⅞ x 49¼ in.

framed: 116 x 139.7 cm.; 45⅝ x 55 in.

Acquired by Lieutenant General Sir Otto Marling Lund (1891–1956) and Margaret Phyllis Frances Lund (d. 1969), London; 

Thence by descent to the present owner.

This painting is typical of Barend van der Meer's later artistic output from c. 1692 onwards, and compares stylistically to a signed example offered in 1978.1


1 Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 1 December 1978, lot 10.