By and Studio of MELCHIOR DE HONDECOETER (c.1636-c.1695)

A Palace Garden with Exotic Birds and Farmyard Fowl; MELCHIOR d'HONDECOETER (c. 1680 Holland)

A Palace Garden with Exotic Birds and Farmyard Fowl; MELCHIOR d'HONDECOETER (Holland)

Item Provenance & History

Sir Timothy Waldo (1711 – 1780), Hever Castle, Kent and Clapham, London
By descent to his daughter Jane Waldo (born 1746), Clapham (without issue)
By descent to her cousin Edmund Wakefield Mead Waldo (1792 – 1858), 1 June 1830
By descent to Edmund Waldo Mead Waldo (born 1829)
By descent to Edmund Gustavius Meade-Waldo (1865 – 1934) at Hever Castle
Until 1903, whereupon moved to Stonewall Park, Edenbridge
Thence by descent through inheritance

Item Literature

A catalogue of paintings in the possession of Miss Waldo, Clapham, 18th century, no. 2

Item Description / Dealer Expertise

MELCHIOR d’HONDECOETER (studio of / and)
Utrecht 1636 – Amsterdam 1695

A Palace Garden with Exotic Birds and Farmyard Fowl

signature centre left: M. D. Hondecoeter
oil on canvas

DE HONDECOETER

Type	Artist/Maker
Country of origin	Holland
Born	Circa 1636
Died	Circa 1695

A natural draughtsman with an eye for the smallest detail, Melchior De Hondecoeter trained under his father, Gysbert, and was heavily influenced by the works of his uncle, Jan Baptist Weenix.

He seldom departed from depicting wildfowl, poultry and more exotic species of birds in landscape and farmyard scenes and excelled at capturing the movement of birds in full action. One of his most innovative contributions to painting was to cut off flora and fauna at the edge of the canvas, thereby making the painting feel more natural. Even in his own lifetime, he was hailed as the master of Dutch bird painting.

His inclusion of ruins and other architectural features in many canvasses gives them a classical Italianate feel, which must have appealed to the collectors of the day. His works were enormously popular in late seventeenth century Holland and Europe, and can be seen today in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Pitti Palace, Florence; National Gallery and the Wallace Collection, London; Die Alte Pinakothek, Munich; Louvre, Paris; The Metropolitan, New York and also collections in Antwerp, Boston and Cardiff.

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