Sir James Palmer (circa 1584-1658)
An Italianate landscape with nymphs beside ruins
signed 'J.Palmer' (lower right)
oil on panel
16.3 x 22.4cm (6 7/16 x 8 13/16in).
signed 'J.Palmer' (lower right)
oil on panel
16.3 x 22.4cm (6 7/16 x 8 13/16in).
Estimate:
£1,000 - 1,500
€1,200 - 1,800
US$ 1,600 - 2,400
€1,200 - 1,800
US$ 1,600 - 2,400
Footnotes
- PROVENANCE:
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 23 March 1949, lot 58
Sale, Bonhams, London, 7 December 2005, lot 27
LITERATURE:
E. Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters (Suffolk, 1988), p. 211, ill.
The present work is after a painting by Cornelis van Poelenburgh in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. Sir James Palmer was Chancellor of the Order of the Garter to Charles I and an amateur limner. He painted miniature copies after pictures in the Royal Collection, such as the present work.
Category: Fine Art / Old Master Paintings
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