WILLEM VAN SWAANENBURGH (c.1660-1728)

G69601/2

19.75 inch wide   23.00 inch high

50.16 cm wide  58.42 cm high

29.00inch framed width   32.25inch framed height

73.66 cm framed width  81.91 cm framed height

G69601/2

PAIR OF RHINELAND CAPRICCIOS

WILLEM VAN SWAANENBURGH

C.1660 – 1728 one inscribed
Oils on panel 23 x 19 ¾ inches
Framed sizes 32 ¼ x 29 inches

Willem van Swaanenburgh was born in Amsterdam.
He became a painter of landscapes and a renowned polymath.
He turned his hand to many different things, being at various stages, a poet, an actor and science tutor.
His poetry is seen as very unconventional and bizarre.
It seems he was an original thinker.
Much of his career was taken up with landscape paintings where his passion for the fantastic, drew him to paint wonderfully busy capriccios based on the Rhineland.
By 1724 he turned almost exclusively to writing and magazine publishing, particularly satirical subjects.
Very few of his paintings ever appear on the market and it is most likely that this matched left & right handed pair were painted as a commission.

Bibl: Benezit

Provenance: Lady Devlin

gbp 20001.00-25000.00 (Pound Sterling)

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