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| Title | A Bridge into a Fortified Town | |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum | |
| Artist | Attributed to manner of Heyden, Jan van der (Dutch painter, 1637-1712) Previously attributed to Heyden, Jan van der (Dutch painter, 1637-1712) |
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| Date Earliest | possibly about 1660 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1712 | |
| Description | To right are the walls and tower of a town that is approached by a bridge over the stream flowing past the walls centrally. To the left are a cottage and other buildings. Figures are seen on the bridge and on the riverbank. To the left foreground are an ox grazing, sheep and ducks. | |
| Current Accession Number | 52 | |
| Former Accession Number | 79 (1855); 224 (1893) | |
| Inscription | front lc 'J VAN der Heyden' | |
| Subject | buildings and gardens; figure | |
| Measurements | 40.0 x 54 cm.0 cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on panel | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by Archibald McLellan 1854. | |
| Publications | McLellan Catalogue, Glasgow, 1855, p. 6, no. 79, as by van der Heyden; Hofstede de Groot, C., 'Hollandsche Kunst in Schotland', Oud Holland, 11, 1893, p. 140, no. 224; Hofstede de Groot, C., A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, VIII, London, 1927, Heyden, no. 122; Miles, H., Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Paintings in the Glasgow Art Gallery, Glasgow, 1961, I, p. 67, no. 52, II, p. 52, as by an imitator of van der Heyden. | |
| Notes | The signature is false. C. Wright 1983 (file note): 'may well be a work from van der Heyden's early, little-known period'. | |
| Rights Owner | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) | |
| Author | Robert Wenley | |