ID 1248241
Lot 189 | CIRCLE OF QUIRINGH VAN BREKELENKAM (?ZWAMMERDAM, NEAR LEIDEN, AFTER 1622-?1669 LEIDEN)
Estimate value
£ 7 000 – 10 000
An interior with an elderly couple seated at a spinning wheel, the man smoking a clay pipe, with a fireplace and open door beyond
with signature and date 'Q·Brekelenkam 1657·' (lower centre)
oil on panel
18 x 24 1/8 in. (45.6 x 61.1 cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly) Anonymous sale; van der Schley et al., Amsterdam, 19 September 1798, lot 17 (66 florins to La Bousiere).
The Rev. Edmund Best Dalison (1858-1955), Park House, Boxley; Christie's, London, 20 October 1950, lot 13.
with Eugene Slatter, London, 1951.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 18 December 1953, lot 104.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Lady]; Phillips, London, 2 December 1997, lot 168, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
'A Festival Year Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Art', The Illustrated London News, CCXVIII, 28 April 1951, p. 25.
A. Lasius, Quiringh van Brekelenkam, Doornspijk, 1992, p. 172, no. D60, under rejected attributions.
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