Master Paintings Part II
Master Paintings Part II
Property from the Collection of the Late Paula and Don Gaston
Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam
A spinner eating a herring
Lot Closed
January 28, 04:29 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of the Late Paula and Don Gaston
Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam
Zwammerdam circa 1622/30 - after 1669 Leiden
A spinner eating a herring
signed with monogram and dated on the spinning wheel: Q B/ 1661
oil on panel
panel: 17½ by 13¾ in.; 43.8 by 35 cm.
framed: 24½ by 21¼ in.; 62.2 by 54 cm.
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, 4 October 1769, lot 213 (?);
Stanacres Abbey, Cheshire;
Owen Jones collection, Liverpool, and by descent until anonymously sold ("The Property of a Lady"), London, Christie's, 11 March 1983, lot 119;
With Johnny van Haeften, London;
From whom acquired, 13 July 1984.
Stanacres Abbey, Cheshire;
Owen Jones collection, Liverpool, and by descent until anonymously sold ("The Property of a Lady"), London, Christie's, 11 March 1983, lot 119;
With Johnny van Haeften, London;
From whom acquired, 13 July 1984.
O. Naumann, "Laborers and tradesmen in seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting: Images of the world," New Haven, unpublished manuscript, p. 11, cat. no 45;
A. Lasius, Quiringh van Brekelenkam, Doornspijk 1992, pp. 97-98, cat. no. 60.
A. Lasius, Quiringh van Brekelenkam, Doornspijk 1992, pp. 97-98, cat. no. 60.
Van Brekelenkam used a similar male figure in several of his small-format genre scenes. Scenes of tradespeople at work were valued by the new burgher class of art collectors in the Netherlands as they espoused industriousness. The realism of a working man taking a break to eat a popular snack remains appealing today.