Peasants Playing Bowls Outside an Inn, 17th Century Oil on Oak Old Master

1660

Oil on panel Image size: 5 1/2 x 8 inches (14 x 2o cm) Contemporary hand made frame A charming scene of an English country lane, featuring a group of travellers resting on their journey. Two maids seem deep in discussion while they wait with a gentleman wearing a tricorn hat and fashionable maroon...

Oil on canvas, unsigned Image size: 12 x 16 1/2 inches (30.5 x 42 cm) In this scene we see the in the doorway the miller with his back turned to us in conversation. To the right two people sit on the wall...

British School Mid 20th Century The Cricket Match Oil on board Image size: 18 x 24 inches (46 cm x 61 cm)

British School Oil on Canvas, unsigned Image Size: 31 inches x 25 3/4 inches (79 x 65.5 cm) Original gilt frame Gathered along a riverside are two fishermen turned in conversation, ...

Village Archery Tournament, 17th Century School Of David Teniers (1610-1690) Large 17th Century Dutch village peasants archery tournament, oi...

Circle of Teniers, Peasants in a Landscape passing by a river and an Inn.

Painting oil on canvas measuring 45 x 55 cm without frame and 65 x 75 cm with frame depicting an outdoor peasant scene from the Flemish school of the late 17th and early 18th centur...

This fantastic Flemish 17th century Old Master oil painting is by Thomas Van Apshoven. It was painted circa 1650 and depicts a village with figures outside a tavern, eating, drinking and dancing. Beyond are more dwellings, villagers and animals, all under a blue summer's sky. The detail, brushwork and vibrant colouring are superb. This is an excellent example of Apshoven's work and a typical subject he loved to paint. Provenance. Leominster estate. Wax stamp verso. Condition. Oil on panel, 22 inches by 17 inches and in good condition. Frame. Housed In beautiful gilt frame, 30 inches by 25 inches and in good condition. Thomas van Apshoven (1622– 1664) was a Flemish painter known for his landscapes with peasant scenes and genre scenes in interiors. His genre scenes depict village festivals, the interiors of taverns, village scenes or landscapes with peasants engaged in various activities, singeries, guardroom scenes and laboratories of alchemists. Some still lifes have also been attributed to him. His themes and style are close to that of David Teniers the Younger. He was born on 30 November 1622 in Antwerp as the eldest son of Ferdinand van Apshoven the Elder and Leonora Wijns. His father was a painter who had studied with Adam van Noort and had become a master of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1596. No paintings by his father are known. His younger brother Ferdinand van Apshoven the Younger became also a successful painter. Thomas studied under his father. Some sources state that he became a pupil of the prominent genre painter David Teniers the Younger. It is more likely, however, that he was an imitator of Teniers. He was registered as a 'wijnmeester' [son of a master] in the Guild of St. Luke of Antwerp in the guild year 1645–1646. He married Barbara Janssens on 22 March 1645. The couple had four children. The godfathers of the children included the painters Victor Wolfvoet...