JACOB SIBRANDI MANCADAN | Travellers resting in a landscape with ruined buildings

The Dukes of Sutherland, Lancaster House, London and Dunrobin Castle, Scotland;

Thence by descent to the present owner.

Mancadan, a resident of Friesland in the very north of The Netherlands, painted landscapes in a highly distinctive and idiosyncratic style, which may reflect his relative isolation from artistic trends in the larger Dutch cities. His style paraphrases the Dutch Italianates, placing herders and animals in fantastic landscapes which are neither Dutch nor Mediterranean, sometimes with ruins that hint at the antique, often with outsized geological features, the whole lit by a grey northern light.