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| Artist | Attributed to manner of Berchem, Nicolaes (Dutch painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1620-1683) |
| Title | Hilly Landscape with Cattle |
| Date earliest | possibly about 1800 |
| Date latest | possibly about 1900 |
| Material | oil on canvas |
| Measurements | 121.4 x 173.5 cm |
| Description | This work is painted very much in the manner of the Dutch painter Nicolaes Berchem. Berchem received his first training in the studio of his father, Pieter Claesz., a still life painter in Haarlem, but is known to have visited Italy in the 1640s, and with Jan Both, became one of the most prolific and admired landscape painters in the Netherlands working in the Italianate style. |
| Subject | landscape; animal (cow, goat, dog); figure |
| Collection | Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead |
| Current accession number | TWCMS:C194 |
| Previous accession number(s) | SAG 377 |
| Acquisition details | Bequeathed by J. A. D. Shipley, 1909. |
| Principal publications | Catalogue of the Shipley Collection, 1917, no. 377 without attribution; Catalogue of the Shipley Collection, 1921, no. 377 without attribution; Catalogue of the Shipley Collection, 1951, no. 377 attributed as after Berchem. |
| Notes |
In 2002 that year Caroline Worthington stood by the attribution to an imitator of Berchem. She was unable to find an exact model for this work but believed it to be drawn from a number of similar works produced by Berchem throughout his career (he was prolific - producing over 800 paintings and over 50 engravings of animals). He was known to have a number of pupils and followers, such as Dirck van Bergen. Another, Willem Romeyn specialized in small pictures of cattle and sheep grazing in a mountainous landscape. Hendrick Mommers' scenes are usually set near ruins, have vegetable vendors or shepherds with their flocks, and nearly always a woman wearing a broad brimmed hat. |
| Rights status | The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead (Tyne and Wear Museums) |
| Author | Elizabeth van der Beugel |
