Property from the Collection of the Late Howard Hodgkin
The Pseudo-Roestraten
Still life with a teapot, chalice, recorder and carpet, on a table
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July 4, 09:57 AM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Property from the Collection of the Late Howard Hodgkin
The Pseudo-Roestraten
Dutch, active late 17th century
Still life with a teapot, chalice, recorder and carpet, on a table
oil on canvas
unframed: 66.6 x 59 cm.; 26¼ x 23¼ in.
framed: 81.4 x 75 cm.; 32 x 29½ in.
Dr Fred G. Meijer has pulled together approximately one hundred still lifes by the hitherto anonymous artist, or group of artists, known as the Pseudo-Roestraten and their studio(s). This notname name was coined owing to the stylistic affinities between their output and that of Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraten (1630–1700). These artists were active in England in the second half of the seventeenth century and their work was certainly popular among British collectors; Roestraten himself is believed to have arrived in the country by 1666. It is thought that he worked on commission for the Marquess of Lothian and Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, while a picture by the Pseudo-Roestraten is documented at Chatsworth by 1727, where it remained until sold in the famous Devonshire sale of 1958.1
We are grateful to Dr Meijer for endorsing the attribution to the Pseudo-Roestraten on the basis of digital images.
1 London, Christie's, 27 June 1958, lot 15.
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