Pieter Hermansz. Verelst

A.F. Walter (1846-1910), Bearwood;

By whose executors sold, London, Christie's, 20 June 1913, lot 135;

Where acquired by Gooden & Fox, London;

Frederick Anthony White, F.S.A.;

By whom sold, London, Christie's, 18 December 1925, lot 93;

Where acquired by Morris;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 10 July 1931, lot 90;

Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Lady"), London, Sotheby's, 7 July 1993, lot 108;

With Richard Green, London;

From whom acquired by the late collector.

G. H. Veth, "Pieter Hermansz. Verelst en zijne zonen," in Oud-Holland (1896), p. 106;

W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. VI, Landau/Pfalz 1983, p. 3582, reproduced.

Signed and dated 1650, this charming panel by Pieter Hermansz. Verelst depicts the quaint interior of a seventeenth-century Dutch schoolroom. Best known for his tronies, peasant interiors, and contemporary genre scenes, Verelst catered to a growing class of middle-class patrons with an appetite for familiar scenes of everyday life.