The Property of a Lady
CHARLES COLLINS | STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES, PEACHES, PLUMS AND OTHER FRUIT, A PORCELAIN BOWL, AND A BLUE TIT, ALL ON A DRAPED TABLE
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The Property of a Lady
CHARLES COLLINS
London 1680 - 1744
STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES, PEACHES, PLUMS AND OTHER FRUIT, A PORCELAIN BOWL, AND A BLUE TIT, ALL ON A DRAPED TABLE
signed and dated lower left: C. Collins. F. / 1729
oil on canvas
unframed: 59.9 x 50.6 cm.; 23⅝ x 19⅞ in.
framed: 76 x 66.9 cm.; 29⅞ x 26⅜ in.
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With Spink, London;
From whom acquired by the parents of the present owner in the 1980s, for £6,500;
Thence by descent.
Charles Collins painted mainly depictions of animals and birds. In his Anecdotes of Painting, George Vertue noted that Collins 'painted all sorts of fowl and game. He drew a piece with a hare and birds and his own portrait in a hat.'1 Collins looked to 17th-century Dutch art for inspiration, and the present work is a fine example of his homage to the still lifes of the Dutch Golden Age.
1 G. Vertue, Anecdotes of Painting in England, H. Walpole ed., London 1762, vol. 2, p. 122.