
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Provenance
Private Collection, Paris, presumably 18th century
Collection of Thomas Poynder
T.A.M Poynder, Hartham Park, Wiltshire (included in Inventory of 1873), and by descent to his nephew
Sir John Dickson-Poynder, Bt., created Lord Islington and thence by descent through the family until offered by the heirs
Sale, Christie's, London, 11 February 1972, lot 61 (bt. Marin for 4500 gns)
With David M. Koetser, Zurich, July 1972
Acquired by the present owner's father in London in 1972
Exhibited
Bristol, City Art Gallery, on long-term loan
Engraved
Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (1731-1797) as La Bonne Intelligence (see fig. 1)
We are grateful to Dr. Margret Klinge for confirming the attribution to David Teniers upon inspection of the original and for suggesting a date of the 1650s, when the artist was working in Brussels.