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| Title | Interior of a Tavern | |
| Alternative Title | A Tavern Scene | |
| Collection | Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead | |
| Artist | Teniers, David, II (Flemish painter, 1610-1690) | |
| Date Earliest | probably 1640 | |
| Date Latest | probably 1650 | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | David Teniers the Younger was taught by his father, the landscape painter David Teniers the Elder. However, the work of the younger artist was chiefly influenced by his short lived contemporary Adriaen Brouwer, whose humorous, sometimes violent, depictions of peasants gained huge popularity in the seventeenth-century Netherlands. Indeed, Teniers' own reputation in his lifetime was immense, and his interiors of taverns, such as this one, were particularly successful. This, one of the finest works in the Shipley Collection, is an excellent example of Teniers' skill. | |
| Current Accession Number | TWCMS:G443 | |
| Former Accession Number | SAG 1026 | |
| Inscription | front lr 'DT' | |
| Subject | everyday life; figure; interior | |
| Measurements | 52.7 x 76.2 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on panel (hardwood {oak}) | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by the National Art-Collections Fund, 1955. | |
| Provenance | Alexander Baring; by descent to William Lloyd, Manchester, before 1831; by descent to Edward Lloyd, 1857; by descent to Captain E. N. F. Lloyd; lloyd sale, Christie's, 30 April 1937 purchased by Gooden and Fox, for Ernest Cook, for £1500; bequeathed by Cook to the National Art-Collections Fund, 1955. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Art Treasures, Manchester Art Gallery, 1857, cat. no. 1068; European Old Masters, Manchester Art Gallery, 1957, cat. no. 126; Primitives to Picasso, Royal Academy, London, 1962, cat. no. 114; Dutch and Flemish 16th and 17th Century Paintings from the Shipley Collection, Alan Jacobs Gallery, London, (touring), 1979, cat. no. 22. | |
| Publications | Smith, J., A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London, 1831, vol. III, cat. no. 608; Burger, W., Tresors d'Art Exposés a Manchester en 1857, Paris, 1857, p. 235; Drinkwater, N., Annual Report of the Shipley Art Gallery and Saltwell Park Museum, 1955/6, p. 11, ill. p. 10; 52nd Annual Report of the National Art Collections Fund National Art Collections Fund, 1956, p. 25; Art Treasures Centenary: European Old Masters, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1957, cat. no. 126; Wright, C., Dutch and Flemish 16th and 17th Century Paintings from the Shipley Collection, Alan Jacobs Gallery, London, 1979, cat. no. 22. | |
| Notes | The address of Ernest E. Cook was Bathwick House, No. 1 Sion Hill Place, Bath. On his death on 15 March 1955, E. E. Cook bequeathed the entire contents of his house to the National Art-Collections Fund, to be distributed throughout museums and galleries in England. This work was described by Smith in 1831 (see publications) as 'an excellent production; the heads of the figures in the principal group are finished with unusual care and precision.' A note in the Shipley files records that according to Dr Klinge, the picture must date from about 1650, owing to its similarities to The Card Players, dated 1650 in the Galleria Sabauda, Turin. However, in a letter to the Shipley Art Gallery in 1957, Horst Gerson dated this picture as sometime in the 1640s. A copy of the work is in the collection of Dr W. Schwarze, Wuppertal. | |
| Rights Owner | The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead (Tyne and Wear Museums) | |
| Author | Elizabeth van der Beugel | |