Landscape with a tower
Maker
Paulus van Liender (artist)
1731-1797
1731-1797
Title
Landscape with a tower
Date of Production
1779
Medium
black chalk, watercolour on laid paper, with double grey ink framing lines, on a historic support
Dimensions
Height: 25.9 cm
Width: 31 cm
Width: 31 cm
Accession Number
D.2005.XX.5
Mode of Acquisition
Lesley Lewis, gift, via the Art Fund, June 2005
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
John Rushout, 2nd Earl of Northwick (1770-1859); sale of Northwick Collection, Sotheby's (London), 14 December 1938; purchased there by The Fine Art Society (London); purchased there by James Lawrence, Pilgrim's Hall, Brentwood, Essex, 20 December 1938 (£42); by descent to his daugther, Mrs Lesley Lewis (1909-2010); Lewis Gift 2005
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to support.
Label: Removed from a mount, now in the file: printed in black ink, with numbers added in blue ink and name stamped: “ARMY & NAVY STORES / WAREHOUSING DEPT. / No. 148/7 / MRS L LEWIS / 4 6 76 / REM 39 / HSR 2/8529 3/76 5m //”; printed in black ink, with Sotheby’s info added in pen and brown ink: “THE FINE ART SOCIETY, LTD., / 148 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, W.1. / By Appointment to Her Majesty THE QUEEN. / PAUL van LIENDER (1731-1797) (bought at Sotheby’s / Dec 1938) / A Tower forming part of the enceinte of a river castle: at the first storey entrance a woman and child converse / with a man leaning from a window: on the right a wash- / house: in the foreground two figures in a boat enter by / a water-gate: on the mount in an old hand, “Paul van / liender fec.: 1779” (watercolour). / (Signed behind drawing in bottom right-hand corner). / Paulus van Liender, a Dutch engraver, was born at Utrecht / in 1731 and was a brother of Pieter van Liender. His / uncle Jakob sent him to Amsterdam to learn drawing, and / he afterwards painted flowers, landscapes and views. He / also executed some etchings. He died at Utrecht. //”.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Support (historic), Verso: lower right, graphite: "9 mo".
Label: Removed from a mount, now in the file: printed in black ink, with numbers added in blue ink and name stamped: “ARMY & NAVY STORES / WAREHOUSING DEPT. / No. 148/7 / MRS L LEWIS / 4 6 76 / REM 39 / HSR 2/8529 3/76 5m //”; printed in black ink, with Sotheby’s info added in pen and brown ink: “THE FINE ART SOCIETY, LTD., / 148 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, W.1. / By Appointment to Her Majesty THE QUEEN. / PAUL van LIENDER (1731-1797) (bought at Sotheby’s / Dec 1938) / A Tower forming part of the enceinte of a river castle: at the first storey entrance a woman and child converse / with a man leaning from a window: on the right a wash- / house: in the foreground two figures in a boat enter by / a water-gate: on the mount in an old hand, “Paul van / liender fec.: 1779” (watercolour). / (Signed behind drawing in bottom right-hand corner). / Paulus van Liender, a Dutch engraver, was born at Utrecht / in 1731 and was a brother of Pieter van Liender. His / uncle Jakob sent him to Amsterdam to learn drawing, and / he afterwards painted flowers, landscapes and views. He / also executed some etchings. He died at Utrecht. //”.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Support (historic), Verso: lower right, graphite: "9 mo".
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