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| Artist | Berchem, Nicolaes (Dutch painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1620-1683) |
| Previous attributions | Previously attributed to Dutch (Utrecht) School |
| Title | Man and Girl with Cattle |
| Date earliest | possibly 1750 |
| Date latest | about 1873 |
| Material | oil on canvas |
| Measurements | 29.2 x 23.5 cm |
| Description | A rider on a white horse viewed from behind, with a young woman and a dog on the left. To the foreground right is a cow and a goat, and ruin on a hill in the background. This painting is probably a copy after or imitation of a work by Nicolaes Berchem. The figures are characteristic of his works combining shepherds, cattle and horses. Berchem often used Italian landscapes as settings for idyllic pastoral scenes of riders, peasants and small herds of cattle. This work probably dates from the eighteenth or nineteenth century. |
| Subject | figure; landscape; everyday life; animal (horse, dog, cow, goat) |
| Collection | Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery |
| Current accession number | MNEMG 00.1873.46 |
| Previous accession number(s) | 24 |
| Acquisition details | Bequeathed by Julius Lucius Brenchley 1873. |
| Principal publications | Legouix, S., Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery: Foreign Painting Catalogue, Maidstone, 1976, p. 16, as manner of Dutch seventeenth century; Wright, C. (ed.), Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century: Images of a Golden Age in British collections, Birmingham, 1989, as possibly 19th century. |
| Notes | Labels on back ‘Maidstone Museum. Catalogue page 3. No. 24. Subject – Man and Girl with Cattle. Painter - . Donor – Julius Lucius Brenchley’; ‘34’; engraving of a map of Soho ‘Professed objects of the National Institution, Britain, established at the Pantheon’ (possibly cover of a journal or other publication; inscription ‘2’; stencil ‘00-1873-46’. The donor Julius Lucius Brenchley (1816 – 1873) was a great traveller, author and antiquarian. He completed his M. A. at St John’s College, Cambridge in 1843. The same year Brenchley was ordained curate of Holy Trinity, Maidstone. He originally trained for the Church, however spent most of his career travelling in America, the South Sea Islands and New Zealand. Between 1845 and 1847 Brenchley made a European tour with his father John Brenchley. However the tour was cut short by the death of John Brenchley in Paris in 1847. From 1847 to 1867 Brenchley made journeys to Utah, New Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, Peru and Chile, India, China and Mongolia, and Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Siberia and Poland. Brenchley was a passionate collector of art, ethnography and natural history. His taste in art was conditioned by his love of travel; continental views and ‘low life’ subjects form the majority of the Brenchley bequest. |
| Rights status | © Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery |
| Author | Laura North |
