Luis Meléndez

By family tradition, acquired by a forebear during Wellington's Spanish campaign of 1808-1814;

Thence by family descent to 'the Bishop of Eastbourne' [sic], Sussex, until 1961;

Probably with J. Dik, London, by whom probably sold to;

Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt, by 1963;

With Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London, by 1987 (when advertised in Arts Review, 17 July 1987, and The Daily Telegraph, 29 July 1987);

From whom acquired in 1987.

H. Soehner, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. Alte Pinakothek, München, Gemäldekataloge I, Spanische Meister, Munich 1963, vol. 1, p. 107;

E. Tufts, A Stylistic Study of the Paintings of Luis Meléndez, doctoral diss., Institute of Fine Arts, New York (1971), Ann Arbor, Michigan 1975, p. 190, no. 77;

E. Tufts, 'Luis Meléndez, Still Life Painter 'Sans Pareil'', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, VI, vol. 100, no. 1366, November 1982, pp. 157-8, no. 51;

E. Tufts, Luis Meléndez. Eighteenth-Century, Master of the Spanish Still Life, Columbia, Missouri 1985, p. 107, no. 88, reproduced p. 187;

M. Weniger, in Greco, Velázquez, Goya, Spanische Malerei aus deutschen Sammlungen, exh. cat., Hamburg 2005, p. 247, reproduced;

P. Cherry, Luis Meléndez, Still-life Painter, Madrid 2006, p. 542, no. 88, reproduced p. 468;

H. Seifert, Alte Pinakothek. Französische und spanische Malerei, Munich 2009, p. 160.