The Samaritan woman at the well

Details

Circle of Balthasar Beschey (1708-1776)
The Samaritan woman at the well
oil on canvas
8 ½ x 9 ¼ in. (21.5 x 23.4 cm.)

Provenance

Lionel Tollemache, 8th Earl of Dysart (1794-1878), Ham House, Surrey, by 1844, and by descent to,
William John Manners Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart, DL (1895-1935), by whom bequeathed with the house in 1935 to his second cousin,
Sir Lyonel Tollemache, 4th Bt. (1854-1952), and by descent to his son,
Sir Lyonel (Boy) Tollemache 5th Bt. (1886-1969), by whom gifted to Barbara Judd (1926-2013).

Literature

W.C. Joel, A Catalogue and Valuation of the Furniture, Plate, Books, Pictures and Engravings at Ham House, Petersham, Surrey, Richmond, 1911, p. 111, listed as Christ & the Woman of Samaria, in Landscape.
C. Rowell ed. Ham House, 400 Years of Collecting and Patronage, New Haven, 2013, Appendix 5: 'The 1844 Inventory', p. 499, listed as A landscape - the Woman of Samaria.

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Lot Essay

When Miss Judd was a young girl, her uncle Boy quizzed her about the subject of the present lot, as she had just learnt the story at Sunday School that day she answered correctly. He gifted the painting to her as a reward.

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