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Salomon van Ruysdael
Description
- Salomon van Ruysdael
- A river scene with boats in the foreground and a windmill and a church in the background
- signed with initials lower left on the boat: SVR
- oil on oak panel
- 14in by 13in.
Provenance
By whose Executors sold, London, Christie's, 18 March 1955, lot 49, for 2,300 guineas, to Slatter;
With Eugene Slatter, London, 1955;
From whom probably acquired, like other Old Masters, by Albert Ehrman (1890–1969), London;
Thence by descent.
Catalogue Note
Note on Provenance
Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon, was a renowned society beauty and diarist, who was associated with The Souls, and believed to have been the model for the characters of Lady Thisbe Crowborough in Max Beerbohm's story Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton in Seven Men (1919) and for Lady Irene Silvester in Maurice Baring's story A Luncheon Party (1925). She sat to John Singer Sargent in 1904 during a protracted visit to Venice, and the resulting portrait, now in Birmingham, Alabama, is an extremely convincing testament to her remarkable beauty.