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| Title | Southern Landscape with Figures | |
| Alternative Title | A Landscape with Figures | |
| Collection | Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Artist | Bloemen, Jan Frans van (Flemish painter, 1662-1749, active in France and Italy) | |
| Date Earliest | possibly about 1720 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1749 | |
| Description | This is one of a pair of Italianate landscapes by van Bloemen acquired by the Museum in 1991 (see also NWHCM : 1991.1.12 : F) | |
| Current Accession Number | NWHCM:1991.1.13:F | |
| Former Accession Number | 13.L1984.1; 13.1.991 | |
| Subject | landscape; figure; buildings and gardens | |
| Measurements | 48.3 x 76.3 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 | [?] John Patteson sale, Christie's, 28-29 May 1819, lot 43 or 79 (both lots as A Landscape with Figures), apparently bought in and remained with Patteson until 1833; by descent to Philippa and Charity Patteson. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Norfolk and Suffolk Institution, Norwich, 1828, cat. no. 72 or 75; Norfolk and the Grand Tour, Norwich Castle Museum, 1985, cat. no. 116. | |
| Publications | Moore, A., Dutch and Flemish Painting in Norfolk, London, 1988, esp. p. 167. | |
| Notes | This work forms a part of the Patteson Collection, the core of which consists of a group of paintings from the collection of the Suffolk antiquary Dr Cox Macro (1683-1767). John Patteson (1755-1833), a Norwich merchant and brewer, inherited Macro's collection through his marriage, in 1781, to Elizabeth Stanniforth. An enthusiastic collector in his own right, Patteson travelled widely and acquired several other important works during the late eighteenth century. The Patteson 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. Frame made by Samuel T. Townsend. | |
| Rights Owner | Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Author | Richard Johns | |