David Teniers II (Antwerp 1610-1690 Brussels)

The interior of a mill

Details

David Teniers II (Antwerp 1610-1690 Brussels)
The interior of a mill
signed and dated 'D.TENIERS.f 163(?)3(?)' (lower centre)
oil on panel
19 x 27 in. (48.2 x 69.2 cm.)
in a mid-18th Century frame in the French taste

Provenance

Recorded by Smith, loc. cit., as having been acquired in 1830 by Peter, 5th Earl Cowper (1778-1837), Panshanger, Hertfordshire, and by descent to
Ethel, Lady Desborough (1867-1952), Panshanger, Hertfordshire, mother of the Hon. Lady Salmond (b. 1893), and by descent.

Literature

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonn, etc., III, London, 1831, p. 438, no. 669, 'The Interior of an oil-crushing Mill...an effective and very artist-like production'.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1881, no. 96, lent by Earl Cowper, K.G.

Lot Essay

A mill interior such as this is an unusual subject not only in Teniers' oeuvre but also in seventeenth-century Netherlandish art as a whole. The date on the present work is not easily read, although the style of execution suggests a date in the second half of the 1630s.

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