Portrait of a Gentleman wearing a Smoking Jacket ~ Flemish School
£6,500.00
Portrait of a Gentleman wearing a Smoking Jacket ~ Flemish School
Description
| Title: | Portrait of a Gentleman wearing a Smoking Jacket, and Fur Hat, seated beside a Ledge holding a Tankard of Ale. |
| Artist: | Flemish School (Circa 1720) |
| Detail: | Oil on canvas: 35 x 26 in. Frame: 42×34 in. Flemish-style frame. |
| Price: | £6,500 |
| Location: | Hungerford |
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Artist Biography
This well executed painting is by a highly accomplished but unidentified Flemish artist, and can be dated to circa 1720.
Gallery note: The sitter is presumably a merchant, shown with his Dutch brand of tobacco and clay pipe. After tobacco was discovered by Columbus in 1492, the Dutch enjoyed pipe smoking and by the early 18 th c the entrepreneurial Amsterdam merchant became rich and successful in the tobacco trade, blending cheaper native with imported.
