FREDERIK VAN VALCKENBORCH (ANTWERP 1566-1623 NUREMBERG)

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07.12.2023 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 11 | FREDERIK VAN VALCKENBORCH (ANTWERP 1566-1623 NUREMBERG)
FREDERIK VAN VALCKENBORCH (ANTWERP 1566-1623 NUREMBERG)

The Battle of Issus, or possibly Ipsus

signed and dated 'F . D . FALKENBOR / . 1611 .' (lower right)

oil on canvas

21 1⁄16 x 26 7⁄8 in. (53.5 x 68.2 cm.)





Provenance

Samuel Day of Hinton House (1757-1806), and by descent to his widow, Mary Day (died in 1846), until 1846.

Thomas Jones (1788-1846), who inherited the estate.

Edward Talbot Day Jones (1837-1911), and by descent.

Anonymous sale; Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, 17 June 2009, lot 315.

with Rafael Valls Gallery, London, from whom acquired in December 2009.



Literature

Probably the picture in the list of the paintings made for Mrs Day after the death of her husband in 1806 (as 'A Battle by Vandermulen').

Inventory of all the Household…including Paintings at Hinton Charterhouse, the Property of the Late Thomas Jones made August 23rd-28th 1848 by English and Sons, Bath (as 'The Battle of Joshua - by F. D. Falkenborg 1611').

D. Alberge, 'Rubens and Neo-Classical Art' in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, pp. 296-297, illustrated p. 295, fig. 6.



Exhibited

Mougins, Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011-2023 (inv. no. MMoCA84MA).
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