Rhineland Capriccios
WILLEM VAN SWAANENBURGH (c.1660-1728)
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Dimensions 19.75inch wide 23.00inch high (50.16 cm wide 58.42 cm high) 29.00inch framed width 32.25inch framed height (73.66 cm framed width 81.91 cm framed height) |
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Description Rhineland Capriccios WILLEM VAN SWAANENBURGH |
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Stock no.
G69601/2
Period
1660
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Literature G69601/2 PAIR OF RHINELAND CAPRICCIOS WILLEM VAN SWAANENBURGH C.1660 – 1728 one inscribed Oils on panel 23 x 19 ¾ inches Framed sizes 32 ¼ x 29 inches Willem van Swaanenburgh was born in Amsterdam. He became a painter of landscapes and a renowned polymath. He turned his hand to many different things, being at various stages, a poet, an actor and science tutor. His poetry is seen as very unconventional and bizarre. It seems he was an original thinker. Much of his career was taken up with landscape paintings where his passion for the fantastic, drew him to paint wonderfully busy capriccios based on the Rhineland. By 1724 he turned almost exclusively to writing and magazine publishing, particularly satirical subjects. Very few of his paintings ever appear on the market and it is most likely that this matched left & right handed pair were painted as a commission. Bibl: Benezit Provenance: Lady Devlin |
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Guide Price
gbp 20001-25000 (Pound Sterling)
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