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Herman van Steenwijck Delft 1612-after 1656
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Description
- Harmen van Steenwijck
- Still lifes with fruit, fish and dead game arranged on table-tops
- a pair, the former signed and dated lower right: H Steenwyck/ 1640
the latter signed lower left: H Steenwyck - both oil on panel
Provenance
Frederick Maning Esq., who emigrated to Hobart from Dublin in May 1824;
Thence by family descent until 23 November 1967, when sold by Burn & Son Pty Ltd., from whom acquired by the present owner.
Thence by family descent until 23 November 1967, when sold by Burn & Son Pty Ltd., from whom acquired by the present owner.
Exhibited
Hobart, Legislative Council Chambers, 1845, nos. 31 and 36 ;
Hobart, Parliamentary Buildings, The First Annual Exhibition of the Fine Arts, February 1887, nos. 208 and 209 (as Willem Kalf);
Hobart, Tasmanian Art Gallery, 1895 (as Willem Kalf);
Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Exhibition of surviving works from the Hobart Town exhibition of 1845, October - November 1986.
Hobart, Parliamentary Buildings, The First Annual Exhibition of the Fine Arts, February 1887, nos. 208 and 209 (as Willem Kalf);
Hobart, Tasmanian Art Gallery, 1895 (as Willem Kalf);
Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Exhibition of surviving works from the Hobart Town exhibition of 1845, October - November 1986.
Literature
Hobart Town Courier, 9 January 1845;
Mercury, 22 February 1887;
B.Y. O'Driscoll, "Double Dutch in Van Diemen's Land", in Australian Antique Collector, 34th ed. (the above according to labels on the reverse of the painting).
Mercury, 22 February 1887;
B.Y. O'Driscoll, "Double Dutch in Van Diemen's Land", in Australian Antique Collector, 34th ed. (the above according to labels on the reverse of the painting).