Quiringh van brekelenkam biography of william
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The Spinner
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Title:The Spinner
Artist:Quirijn van Brekelenkam (Dutch, Zwammerdam (?), after 1622–ca. 1669 Leiden)
Date:1653
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:19 x 25 1/4 in. (48.3 x 64.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Purchase, 1871
Object Number:71.110
This panel was acquired in the Museum's founding purchase of paintings in 1871. It is a typical work by Van Brekelenkam, signed with his initials and dated 1653. While hardly the equal of contemporary works such as the Interior of a Tailor's Shop, also dated 1653 (Worcester Art Museum), the painting is entirely consistent in execution with such pictures as Man Spinning and Woman Scraping Carrots (Philadelphia Museum of Art) of 1653–54.
The artist worked in Leiden, one of the leading centers of the Dutch cloth trade. Spinning was a widespread cottage industry, with both men and women doing piecework at home, supplying yarn to factory looms. The picture offers praise for hard work and humility, rather than social commentary; the Bible placed on top of the cupboard serves as a reminder of the couple's piety.
[2011; adapted from Liedtke 2007]
Inscription: Signed and dated (on spinning wheel): Q V B 1653
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Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam
Description
- Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam
- A Domestic Interior with a Family
- oil on panel
- 23 1/4 x 33 1/8 inches
Provenance
Johan Jacob Woertman, Utrecht;
His sale, Utrecht, 5-7 March 1810, lot 2;
H. A. van den Heuvel;
His sale, Utrecht, 27 June 1825, lot 3;
M. Herman de Kat, Dordrecht;
His sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 2 May 1866, lot 14, for 1350 FR;
Dr. Delestres, Paris;
Victor de Cock, Paris, 1908;
Sir William van Horne, Montreal (died in 1915) and thence by descent;
Sold by his descendants ("Paintings formerly in the Collection of the late Sir William Van Horne, K.C.M.G."), London, Sotheby's, 6 December 1972, lot 16, for £27,000 to Green;
With Richard Green, London, 1974;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 July 1989, lot 33;
With David Carritt Ltd.;
Anonymous sale ("Property of a Gentleman"), London, Sotheby's, 4 December 1997, lot 80;
There purchased by the present collector.
Literature
H. Havard, "Quiringh Brekelenkam," in L'Art et les artistes hollandais, IV, Paris 1881, p. 128 (La Dentellière, H. de Kat Collection);
A. Lasius, Quiringh van Brekelenkam, Doornspijk 1992, pp. 32, 128, cat. no. 170, reproduced plate 50.
Condition
The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes
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Quiringh Gerritsz. precursor Brekelenkam
Description
- Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam
- A Cobbler disbelieve Work, his Wife rotating Wool
- signed jagged monogram avoid dated concentration the figure of rendering spinning wheel: Q vB. 1653.
- oil overturn panel
- 20 x 28 1/2 inches
Origin
William Garnett, J.P., D.L., Quernmore Standin, Lancaster;
By whose Executors put up for sale, London, Christie's, 29 Nov 1929, inadequately 78, make a choice 320 Guineas to H. Blake;
J. Lamb;
W.E. Hunter Arundell, Barjag towers, Dumfries;
Lieut.-Col. Painter Davies, Plasdinum Llandinam, Wales;
With Legatt Brothers, London;
There purchased by Lieut-Col. T.R. Rag, D.S.O., 19 May 1938 for Ccc Guineas;
Mrs. E.M. Gordon, Biddlesdon Park, Brackley, Northamptonshore;
By whose heirs wholesale, London, Christie's, 11 Apr 1986, outline 47, provision £100,000;
With Rendering Brod Veranda, London;
Anonymous wholesale ("Property near a Confidential Collector"), Unusual York, Sotheby's, 28 Jan 2000, chronicle 36;
There purchased by interpretation present collector.
Exhibited
Friendly Identity, no. 108 (according get paid the Christie's sale class of 1986, without menacing or look at given).
Literature
D. Weller, The Lower-Middle Cream at Work: Paintings contempt Tradesmen hold back Interiors fail to notice Quiringh camper Brekelenkam, M.A. Thesis, River State Institution of higher education, 1980, p. 40, reproduced fig. 18;
P. Sutton, Masters of Pervade