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| Title | Landscape with Horsemen | |
| Alternative Title | Landscape with Horsemen on a Path Entering a Wood, Figures Waiting for a Ferry, Cattle and Sheep Beyond | |
| Collection | Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Artist | Waterloo, Anthonie (Dutch painter and printmaker, ca. 1610-1690) | |
| Date Earliest | possibly about 1630 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1680 | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | Not a great deal is known about Anthonie Waterloo, and signed works by the artist are relatively rare. However, his work displays many of the qualities, and carried much of the appeal, of that of his more celebrated contemporary Jacob van Ruisdael. In the busy artistic centres of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, it was not unusual for artists to collaborate, particularly in the popular genre of landscape painting, and Waterloo is known to have worked with other artists, including Jan Weenix who contributed staffage (human and animal figures) to some of his landscapes. | |
| Current Accession Number | NWHCM:1991.1.33:F | |
| Former Accession Number | 33.1.991; 33.L1984.1 | |
| Inscription | front ll (monogram) 'AW' | |
| Subject | landscape; figure; animal (horse) | |
| Measurements | 65.4 x 52.3 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Purchased from the estate of Philippa and Charity Patteson through Sotheby's, 1991, with grant aid from the Museums and Galleries Commission (in lieu of inheritance tax), the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and the National Art-Collections Fund. | |
| Provenance | Probably John Patteson, until 1833; by descent to Philippa and Charity Patteson. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Dutch and Flemish Painting in Norfolk, Norwich Castle Museum, 1988, cat. no. 75. | |
| Publications | Moore, A. W., Dutch and Flemish Painting in Norfolk, London, 1988, p. 123, ill. | |
| Notes | This work forms a part of the Patteson Collection, a group of forty, mostly Dutch, paintings acquired by Norwich Castle Museum in 1991. The collection, and its importance to the artistic and regional identity of the nineteenth-century Norwich School of artists, led by John Crome and John Sell Cotman, have been studied in detail by Andrew Moore, Keeper of Art at Norwich Castle Museum, most notably in his Dutch and Flemish Painting in Norfolk: a history of taste and influence, fashion and collecting, London, 1988, esp. pp. 41-47 and 119-27. | |
| Rights Owner | Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Author | Richard Johns | |