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Thomas Wyck Beverwijk or Haarlem circa 1616 - 1677 Haarlem
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Description
- Thomas Wyck
- a village scene with women sewing and a boy peeling vegetables at the entrance to a cottage, drovers crossing a bridge beyond
signed lower right: TWIJCK F. (TW in monogram)
oil on oak panel
Provenance
English private collection;
With Edward Speelman, London;
From whom acquired by the late father of the present owners in 1956.
Catalogue Note
Thomas Wyck was in Rome in the early 1640s, where his style developed in the tradition of other northern artists active in the city, such as Pieter van Laer and Andries Both. The present picture, on its oak support, was almost certainly painted on his return from Rome, in his native Haarlem, where he continued to paint Italianate subjects for the following three decades. The choice of a humble backstreet scene as a subject for depiction links this painting by Thomas Wyck with the work of the Bamboccianti.