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| Title | Vegetable Stall | |
| Alternative Title | Fruit and Vegetable Market | |
| Collection | Victoria Art Gallery, Bath | |
| Artist | Angillis, Pieter (Flemish painter, 1685-1734) | |
| Date Earliest | probably about 1705 | |
| Date Latest | 1743 | |
| Description | In the centre of the composition, a greengrocer sets out his wares from the back of a wagon. A well-built woman with a large basket is apparently purchasing goods. In the foreground, many types of vegetable are arrayed. A rural setting is indicated by a cottage and trees in the background. | |
| Current Accession Number | BATVG:P:1900.23 | |
| Former Accession Number | A22 | |
| Inscription | front cl (on flagon) AN | |
| Subject | figure; everyday life; trade and industry | |
| Measurements | 52.3 x 45.7 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by the executors of Mons. James Shepherd, before 1900. | |
| Provenance | Collection of Conolly family, Midford Castle, by 1871; bequeathed by Mrs Jane Conolly to Mons. Charles Parfitt, Prior Park, Bath, 1871; bequeathed (?) by Mons. Charles Parfitt to Mons. James Shepherd, Prior Park, Bath, 1886. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Bath Assembly Exhibition, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, 1948; Renaissance to Baroque 1520 1720: Treasure from Bristol and Bath Museums, Holburne of Menstrie Museum, Bath, 1981. | |
| Publications | Catalogue of Pictures: Exhibition of Pictures in the Possession of the Corporation of the City of Bath, Bath, 1948, p. 19; Wright, C., Old Master Paintings in Britain: An Index of Continental Old Master Paintings executed before c.1800 in Public Collections in the United Kingdom, London, 1976, p. 4; Renaissance to Baroque 1520 1720: Treasure from Bristol and Bath Museums, Holburne of Menstrie Museum, Bath, 1981, p. 7; Sloman, S., Victoria Art Gallery: Concise Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings, Bath, 1991, p. 1. | |
| Notes | Mons. James Shepherd was a master at the Catholic college of Prior Park, Bath, and author of Reminiscences of Prior Park (London, 1894). The Victoria Art Gallery's collection of works from Midford Castle near Bath was bequeathed or given to Shepherd by another master at the college, Mons. Charles Parfitt. The Midford Castle estate had been bequeathed to Parfitt by Mrs Jane Conolly, a bequest which was unsuccessfully contested by Mrs Conolly's nephew in 1871-72. It is uncertain if the collection was originally accumulated by Mrs Conolly's late husband, the eminent barrister Charles Conolly, or whether, as is traditionally supposed, it came into the family by the marriage of his son to the Italian Marchesa Luisa di Sant' Agata. The work was the subject of local press interest at the time of its theft in 1984 and recovery in 1991. | |
| Rights Owner | Victoria Art Gallery, Bath | |
| Author | Dr Susan Steer | |