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| Title | Exterior of an Inn. Peasants Drinking | |
| Alternative Title | Cottage Exterior, Boors Regaling | |
| Collection | Cannon Hall Museum, Park and Gardens, Barnsley | |
| Artist | Teniers, David, II (Flemish painter, 1610-1690) | |
| Date Earliest | probably about 1665 | |
| Date Latest | probably about 1675 | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | The son and pupil of David Teniers the Elder, Teniers was born in Antwerp and entered the Guild of St Luke in 1622/3. He later settled in Brussels where he worked for the Governors of the Netherlands. He helped establish the Académie Royale in Antwerp in 1663. He was married to the daughter of Jan Brueghel, the Elder. Teniers painted landscapes and genre scenes, becoming one of the most famous seventeenth-century genre painters. Many of his works were reproduced as engravings. He was greatly influenced in his early work by Adriaen Brouwer. The work is similar in subject matter, style and composition to other works by the artist. Many examples show peasants featured at a table either drinking or playing cards outside a tavern. The building may be a brothel, as in other works by Teniers. The facial types, verging on caricature, are also common in his art. | |
| Current Accession Number | A1950 | |
| Inscription | front cr 'D TENIERS FEC' | |
| Subject | figure; landscape; everyday life; building and gardens | |
| Measurements | 18.4 x 26 cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on panel | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by the National Art-Collections Fund 2002. | |
| Provenance | In the collection of William Harvey of Barnsley by 1863(?); by descent to Henry Harvey, JP (1867-1879)(?); by descent to William Harvey of Leeds (1879-1917)(?); given by William Harvey to National Loan Collection Trust, 19 June 1917; transferred to National Art-Collections Fund, 20 May 2002. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | The Loan Collection of Works by 'Old Masters', and by deceased artists of the English and Foreign Schools, Municipal Art Gallery, Leeds, 1889-90, cat. no. 470, as Cottage Exterior, Boors Regaling. | |
| Publications | Catalogue of Pictures in the National Loan Collection Trust, London, 1919, 1920, 1928, 1930, 1937, cat. no. 47, ill. pp. 100-101; Catalogue of Pictures in the National Loan Collection Trust, London, 1954, cat. no. 47, p. 47; The William Harvey Collection of Dutch and Flemish Paintings, Cannon Hall Museum, 1975, cat. no. 41. | |
| Notes | No invoice for this work has been found with the others filed at the NACF. It was first recorded in the collection on an inventory of William Harvey of Leeds, dated 1883. It is therefore possible that this work was purchased by either Henry Harvey or William Harvey of Barnsley. The Teniers expert, Margret Klinge in Dussledorf thinks that it may be an original late work and is certainly not a copy of a known work. This painting is part of a collection formed by William Harvey of Barnsley (1811-1867). Harvey was a Quaker, whose family made its money in the linen industry. Most of the paintings were acquired between 1849 and 1866 through the dealer Thomas R. Rutley and his son Colonel J. L. Rutley. The company later traded as Messrs Rutley. The collection consists mainly of Dutch and Flemish seventeenth-century paintings. On his death, the collection passed to Harvey's brother, Henry Harvey, J.P. (1814-1879). Nothing was added to the collection during this period and it was passed by descent to a nephew, William Harvey of Leeds. William Harvey of Leeds donated his collection to the National Loan Collection Trust in 1917. The purpose of the Trust was to lend pictures to regional galleries in England and the British Colonies. It was finally agreed to lend the collection on long term loan to Cannon Hall in Barnsley and in 2002 the collection was transferred to them on a permanent basis. |
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| Rights Owner | Cannon Hall Museum (Barnsley Metropolitan Council) | |
| Author | Dr Madeleine Korn | |