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| Artist | After Berchem, Nicolaes (Dutch painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1620-1683) |
| Previous attributions | Previously attributed to French School Previously attributed to Roos family (German artists, active 17th-18th centuries) |
| Title | A Musician |
| Date earliest | possibly about 1700 |
| Date latest | possibly about 1850 |
| Material | oil on canvas |
| Measurements | 38 x 25.2 cm |
| Description | Nicolaes Berchem received his first training in the studio of his father, Pieter Claesz., a still life painter in Haarlem. Berchem 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. Though this work is not believed to be by Berchem, it is probably painted from a print of a known Berchem drawing. |
| Subject | everyday life; figure; animal (cows, sheep, dog) |
| Collection | Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead |
| Current accession number | TWCMS:B8413 |
| Previous accession number(s) | SAG 264 |
| Acquisition details | Bequeathed by J. A. D. Shipley, 1909. |
| Principal publications | Catalogue of the Shipley Collection, 1917, no. 264 attributed to T. de Vogel; Catalogue of the Shipley Collection, 1921, no. 264 attributed to T. de Vogel; Catalogue of the Shipley Collection, 1951, no. 264 attributed to T. de Vogel. |
| Notes | This work is a pair with B8415. The original attribution to T. de Vogel has since been disputed. The canvas itself is believed to be Italian (Waddingham, in Shipley files). In 1974, Christie's attributed the work to style of Roos, though French eighteenth century, and an attribution to de Vogel after Berchem had also been suggested. However, on 16 July 1963, H. Gerson of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, wrote to Nevin Drinkwater, then curator of the Shipley; ''As to the picture which you include, also we have the feeling, that it may be Italian. Whatever the painter may be, it is a copy after a picture by Berchem, or to say it better, after the facsimile after a Berchem drawing done by J. Cootwijk. There is also a print after Berchem dated 1652, and this print is in reverse, but the 'print-drawing' by Cootwijk, is the same way as your picture''. There seems no reason to doubt this attribution, meaning that the work can be currently attributed as a probable Italian copy after Cootwijk after Berchem. |
| Rights status | The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead (Tyne and Wear Museums) |
| Author | Elizabeth van der Beugel |
