Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction, Part II
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction, Part II
Property from a Private Collection
Attributed to Peter Tillemans
London, a view of Greenwich with the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Hospital and Saint Paul's Cathedral in the distance
Lot Closed
July 7, 01:15 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Attributed to Peter Tillemans
Antwerp 1684–1734 Norton, Suffolk
London, a view of Greenwich with the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Hospital and Saint Paul's Cathedral in the distance
oil on canvas
unframed: 93.5 x 167.7 cm.; 36¾ x 66 in.
framed: 113.9 x 186.8 cm.; 44⅞ x 73½ in.
With Vicars Brothers, London (according to a label on the reverse);
With Roy Miles, London (according to a label on the reverse);
With Albrecht Neuhaus, Würzburg, by 1976 (as Jean Rigaud) (when advertised in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXVIII, December 1976, reproduced pl. XXVIII);
Private collection.
Col M.H. Grant, A Chronological History of the Old English Landscape Painters, Leigh-On-Sea 1958, vol. 2, p. 90, no. 81, reproduced plate 40 (as attributed to Jean Rigaud).
Although formerly erroneously attributed to the French engraver Jean Rigaud (circa 1700–1754), this painting is actually a work by the Flemish born Peter Tillemans who specialised in outdoor views of this type. A corresponding landscape attributed to Tillemans, which is undoubtedly by the same hand as this work, is in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.1
1 Oil on canvas, 81 x 141 cm.; https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-13313