SIMON PIETER TILMAN | DIANA AND HER NYMPHS SLEEPING AFTER THE HUNT

With Lane Fine Art, London;

From whom acquired 27 May 1986.

Tilman was the son of Johann Tilemann, painter at the court of Lippe. He traveled through the Netherlands, Bohemia, Austria, and probably Italy, and developed a style in relation to Dutch painting of the mid-seventeenth century. Best known for portraits and genre and history paintings, Arnold Houbraken also praised his floral still lifes.