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| Artist | Attributed to manner of Berchem, Nicolaes (Dutch painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1620-1683) |
| Previous attributions | Previously attributed to Ossenbeck, Jan van (Dutch painter, 1624-1674) |
| Title | Landscape with a Hawking Party |
| Date earliest | possibly about 1650 |
| Date latest | possibly about 1800 |
| Material | oil on panel |
| Measurements | 22.8 x 27.6 cm |
| Description | On level ground in front of a castle and with cliffs behind, there are two gentlemen and one lady all on horseback. A man on foot beside them has a hawk at his right wrist To the right is a man kneeling as he attends to a dog with two more dogs in left foreground. A statue on a square plinth and a solitary cow fill the left middle ground. |
| Subject | landscape; figure; animal (horse; dog) |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Current accession number | 1 |
| Previous accession number(s) | 2 (1855); 324 (1893) |
| Acquisition details | Bequeathed by Archibald McLellan 1854. |
| Principal publications | McLellan Catalogue, Glasgow, 1855, p. 4, no. 2, as by Jan van Essenbeck; Hofstede de Groot, C., 'Hollandsche Kunst in Schotland', Oud Holland, 11, 1893, p. 142, no. 324, as reminiscent of a picture by Ossenbeck at Prague; Miles, H., Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Paintings in the Glasgow Art Gallery, Glasgow, 1961, I, p. 25, no. 1, II, p. 37, as style of Berchem. |
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| Rights status | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author | Robert Wenley |
