Richmond Palace

Location

Country: Other
City: other locations abroad

Wenceslaus Hollar, draughtsman and etcher, was born in Prague; the son of an official. It is thought he had no formal training. He left Prague at 20 and resided in Stuttgart (1627-29), Strasbourg (1629-30), Frankfurt-am-Main (1631) and Cologne (1632-38), where Abraham Hogenberg published his portraits and views of Prague and the Dutch coast. Thomas Howard, Second Earl of Arundel, met Hollar in Cologne and returned to London with him in 1636. He produced prints of works in the Earl’s collection and married a servant to the Earl’s wife. He moved to Antwerp in 1644, returning in 1651/52. In 1669 he was the official artist on an embassy to Tangier with Lord Henry Howard, which resulted in two series of etchings. He died in Westminster aged 70.

Places

England, Richmond (Surrey), Surrey, River Thames, London, Richmond Palace

Subjects

rowing boat, shooting, rifle (sporting), sport, topography, landscape C17th, tree, dog, bird, lake, man, palace

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil

Artist

Wenceslaus, (After) Hollar

Title

Richmond Palace

Date

c.1675-1710

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 74.00 cm, width: 132.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Christie's, 24 February 1953

Provenance

Collection of Major-General de la Fosse; collection of ‘Groom’; by whom sold through Christie’s, London, on 20 February 1953 (Lot 124), as ‘A view from Richmond Palace with a sportsman in the foreground’ by D. Vinckeboons; from which sale purchased by Leggatt Bros. or Appleby Bros. on behalf of the Ministry of Works

GAC number

2086