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Landscape with a tower

Maker

Paulus van Liender (artist)
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

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

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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".

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